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• The water crisis in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, may soon be abated. The city will start getting water from the Narmada River via the Raska wier. Other areas that will benefit include Vadodara, Bhavnagar, Amreli, Rajot and Junagadh.
• India's first indigenously developed HIV detection kit will be soon available in the market. Named HIV-I and IIW.Blot, the kit has been developed by the department of biotechnology at the Cancer Research Institute, Mumbai. The kit will cost only Rs 600, compared to imported ones that cost Rs 1,380.
• The Gangotri glacier is receding at an alarming rate. In the past 61 years, it receded by 1,147 metres
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