The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control
Board found the Ganga's water near
Lucknow unfit for consumption.
Three outlets tested had a paltry
oxygen content; toxic effluents
offloaded by industrial units are
killing the river.
From April 14 onwards, Gujarat's
forest department carried out a 6-day
census of the endangered Asiatic
lions in the Gir forests.
The Delhi state government claims
that it will soon ban, and make a cognisable offence, the smoking and selling of cigarettes by children under 18.
The smoking and selling of tobacco in
and around educational institutions,
health centres and religious places
will also be prohibited.
The Central government has made it
mandatory for fluoride toothpaste
manufacturers to issue a warning on
the tube that it should not be used by
children below 7 years.
The New Delhi Municipal Corporation has banned - on humanitarian
grounds - scavenging by ragpickers.
The move will rob the ragpickers of
their livelihood.
The US-based ICF-Kaiser International Tramways is likely to revive
the 115-year-old moribund tramways
network in Calcutta.
A solar cell manufacturing unit has
been planned in Bangalore by the
Tatas, in collaboration with BP Solar
of the UK.
The Bangalore state assembly hm
unanir@ojisly adopted the Traim.
plantation of Human Organs Bill
1994, to curb clandestine transplan
tation of human organs and its cal
lous commercialisation.
A sponsorship programme to be
funded by the Children International
of the USA, in collaboration with
Sahay, a Calcutta-based organisation,
will sponsor 20,000 children li -
below the poverty line in West Beno
by AD 2000.
The population of Hangul, the world
famous Kashmiri stag which was on
the verge of extinction, is on the
upswing. A report of the jammu and
Kashmir Wildlife Department stated
that the Hangul population a now
stood at 290 from an alarming 100
I 10 counted in the 1992 census.
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