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• The Indian Council of Agricultural Research will 'set up 500 new centres through institution-village linkage for transferring technology to farmers. This was stated recently by P Das, deputy director-general (extension) of ICAR at Solan, Himachal Pradesh.

• Inaugurating the 34th annual meeting of the Cement Manufacturers' Association at New Delhi on September 12, industry minister K Karunakaran asked the cement industry to adopt energy-conserving and eco-friendly technology. The ministry of enviromnent and forests will receive US $10 billion from the World Bank under the second phase of its programme for curbing pollution. It has already received US $6 billion under the first phase.

• The Geographical Society of India announced on September 11, that it had located coal reserves with an estimated potentiil of 25,750 million tonnes in Orissa's Talchar belt and the IB river coalfields.

• Researchers at the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, have discovered that yellow and orange-Coloured fruits like carrots, oranges and tomatoes contain beta carotene which, apart from fighting blindness, is also an anti-cancer agent.

• Denmark. all for frugal lifestvles? The Worldwide Fund for Nature - India recently conducted a jan sunvai programme - involving commoners, government officials and NGOs - aimed at ensuring a cleaner environment in the ancient temple town of Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh.

• The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Madras. has developed a simple test, involving a stripimpregnated medium (Sim planted in a test tube, for detecting water pollution. The Punjab State Development & Production Corporation Ltd is setting up a software technology park in Mohali, Punjab. It will be the first of its kind in the state.

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