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News ScanDelhi cleared of radiation threat
The Department of Atomic Energy confirms that the missing Cobalt-60 that claimed a life and affected seven others in a Delhi scrap yard has been recovered. Sixteen pencils containing the radioactive material were located and moved to the Narora Atomic Power Station More... MoEF orders suspension of Maheshwar Hydel dam project for flouting clearance lawsThe environment ministry has ordered suspension of work on the first private hydroelectric plant in the country, for failing to prepare a rehabilitation plan for the 70,000 people the project will uproot More... Radiation fear haunts Mayapuri as scrap worker diesA scrap worker hospitalised after exposure to radiation in the national capital earlier this month died from multiple organ failure on April 26, 2010, becoming the first casualty in India’s 60 years of nuclear history More... India has more mobile phones than toilets: UN reportFar more Indians have access to cell phones than to a toilet and basic sanitation, says a new UN report. India has around 545 million cell phones, enough to serve about 45% of the population, but only about 366 million people, or 31% of the population, had access to improved sanitation in 2008 More... India-Bangladesh to set up joint forum to save SunderbansIndia and Bangladesh have decided to set up a joint Sunderbans Ecosystem Forum to protect and preserve the Sunderbans region, 40% of which is in India and 60% in Bangladesh. A joint tiger census may also be undertaken as part of the effort More... Govt scraps two power projects on BhagirathiEnvironmentalists are hoping that the government’s decision to shut down two, and possibly a third, hydel projects on the Bhagirathi river signals a new realisation of the harm such projects can do More... Coca-Cola must pay compensation for polluting Plachimada: panelA Kerala government-appointed panel has indicted the Coca-Cola plant in Plachimada village for polluting water and creating water scarcity, and has recommended it pay compensation More... Vedanta ruining lives in Orissa, alleges new Amnesty reportA new report from Amnesty International supports the growing resistance to Vedanta’s refinery and mining activities in Orissa’s Lanjigarh district More... Credibility issues dog UN climate change bodyAfter the melting glaciers fiasco, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now being challenged on its claim about the disappearing Amazonian forests More... |
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