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• State airs grievances over share of Narmada Water

  Madhya Pradesh has registered its opposition with Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal for neglecting interest of the State in benefits from Narmada river water share among partner States. Madhya Pradesh

  • 19/07/2019

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Madhya Pradesh
    • Narmada
    • Reservoirs
    • Water Resources

• Chhatisgarh in the grip of famine, not just drought: Jogi

  Chhatisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Singh Jogi on Friday insisted that his State was suffering from not a drought but an unprecedented famine and asked the Centre to provide an additional urgent aid of

  • 10/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Bhopal gas victims seek Kalam's help

  Survivors of the Bhopal Gas tragedy have sought intervention by President Abdul Kalam in preventing Delhi from diluting charges against former Chairman of the US Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), Mr.

  • 11/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• NGOs sceptical about Earth Summit

  The Earth Summit, the Untied Nations Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg later this month, is likely to waffle its way through empty statements without firm targets and implementation

  • 12/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Viagra for heart patients?

  Viagra, the tiny blue pill to treat impotence, is helpful to men with heart disease, says a study published in the latest issue of Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association. Men with

  • 09/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Disaster management training programme

  Taking serious view of the probable manmade and natural disaster that could hit Gurgaon for its location on the seismic zone 4, the administration has launched a massive disaster management training

  • 13/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• A deadend for Kyoto clean-up

  The much-hyped market based instruments to deal with carbon emissions reduction as part of the Kyoto Protocol has reached a dead-end. The US withdrawal from the protocol has also left a vaccum in the

  • 13/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Gujarat textbooks teach ways of sex-determination

  Even as the Central Government seeks to strengthen the anti-female foeticide law, school textbooks in Gujarat brazenly teach methods of predetermination of sex of the foetus. The Biology textbook for

  • 12/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Orissa Cabinet storm over drought

  The Orissa Government on Tuesday constituted a five-member Cabinet subcommittee to review the unprecedented drought situation in the State and suggest relief and rehabilitational measures. The

  • 14/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• 12 die in landslides

  Torrential monsoon rains submerged several villages and triggered mudslides in remote and hilly areas in northern India early on Sunday, killing 12

  • 12/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Strike at the root

  That there should ban intense nationwide debate on the issue of of a blanket ban on the sale and manufacture of tobacco products like gutkha and paan masala is hardly surprising. The habit is chewing

  • 13/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Health