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KVIC installs Bee-Boxes at SPG headquarters in Dwarka
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Khadi and Village Industries Commission has installed Bee-Boxes with bee colonies at the headquarters of Special Protection Group (SPG) in Dwarka in southwest Delhi.
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Gadkari bats for electric vehicles, biofuels
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday rooted for electric vehicles and biofuels as more cost-effective, pollution free and indigenous source of energy and said that it is beneficial for all.
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Air pollution increases chronic lung disease risk
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 9 (ANI): Air pollution has come up as a major concern in the modern world considering its long-lasting and serious effects on human lungs.
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Plastic pollution threatens ocean animals: Study
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 5 (ANI): Every day our environment is being threatened by endless plastic pollution in the ocean, resulting to which hundreds of sharks and rays are found tangled in plastic waste, reported a study.
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DPCC issues closure directions to 12 hospitals violating biomedical waste
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): Expressing concern over untreated bio-waste, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has issued closure directions to 12 hospitals and identified 56 others in violation of biomedical waste norms.
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BS-VI emission norms will be implemented across India next year: Javadekar
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday said Bharat Stage-VI (BS-VI) emission norms will be implemented across the country next year, adding that the move would drastically reduce vehicular pollution.
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Air pollution adversely affects female fertility
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 27 (ANI): High levels of air pollution adversely affect a potential marker of female fertility called ovarian reserve, a term used to indicate the number of resting follicles in the ovary, finds a study.
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Amritsar: UNDP team tours city to address air pollution issue
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], June 26 (ANI): A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) team on Wednesday visited various parts of Amritsar city as part of a team to assess the air pollution levels to enable a future action program to address the issue.
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US military consumes more hydrocarbons than most countries, pollutes clima
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 23 (ANI): The US military is one of the largest climate polluters in history as it consumes a considerable about of non-renewable liquid fuels and emits more CO2e (carbon-dioxide equivalent) than most countries, recent findings claim.
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JD(S) appoints Sudhakar K as head of PCB
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Jun 21 (ANI): JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka on Thursday appointed Congress MLA Sudhakar K as the chairman of the state Pollution Control Board.
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Govt committed to ensuring clean Ganga: Kovind
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jun 20 (ANI): The central government is fully committed to ensuring the uninterrupted flow of river Ganga and making it pollution-free, said President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday.
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Squids could survive under climate change: Study
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 17 (ANI): While climate change and increasing pollution continues to haunt human beings, squids have nothing to worry about.
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