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Kiran Rao: Aamir is a bindaas father (Cached)	17.6.2013	Rediff: Top Stories (India)
Kiran Rao discusses Aamir, the father, in a candid chat.
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Hair level slips, age level dips at trichology clinics (Cached)	17.6.2013	TOI: Bangalore Times
Hair level slips, age level dips at trichology clinics
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Third case of legionnaires' disease hits Brisbane hospital	13.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Wesley Hospital launches investigation into further case of deadly disease after death of patient last week The Wesley Hospital in Brisbane is investigating a third case of legionnaires' disease, after one patient died and another was put in intensive care last week. The current case is being investigated after a patient returned a positive reading in a preliminary urine test. "The patient is showing no symptoms of legionnaires' disease, however we are starting treatment as a precaution," the hospital's medical services director, Dr Luis Prado, said in a statement. "This preliminary test may remain positive for a year and therefore does not indicate when or where the patient contracted the disease." Prado said the man has been a patient at Wesley since March and was staying in a different building to the other two cases. The original contamination was sourced to the hospital's hot water system, which cancelled all admissions and elective surgeries while it dealt with the ...
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Caffeine-addicted bacteria can be used to clean up environmental contamination (Cached)	12.6.2013	New Kerala: World News
Washington, June 12 : Scientists believe that bacteria that are "addicted" to caffeine may have wide range of uses from decontamination of wastewater to bioproduction of medications for asthma.
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Bangalore initiative: Training local leaders to be good corporators (Cached)	12.6.2013	New Kerala: India News
By V.S. Karnic, Bangalore, June 12 : Fed up with Bangalore being in the news for all the wrong reasons - strewn garbage, chaotic traffic, air pollution, water scarcity, et al - a citizen's group is to launch a "leadership incubator" for aspiring corporators aimed at raising the governance quotient in the city known as India's tech capital. Civic elections are due in less than two years.
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Environmentalist Erin Brockovich held for drunk boating (Cached)	10.6.2013	New Kerala: World News
Las Vegas, June 10 : Erin Brockovich, whose environmental saga was vividly chronicled in a motion picture, was arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated on Lake Mead near Las Vegas.
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Detroit's mountains of petroleum coke are 'dirtier than the dirtiest fuel'	8.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Byproduct of tar sands production is piling up in Detroit, and environmentalists fear Keystone XL pipeline will bring more • Pictures: Motor City struggles with nearby refinery It was the dirty secret of Alberta's tar sands – until the black mountain of petroleum coke on the banks of the Detroit River grew to occupy an entire city block three storeys high. Now it could become a familiar feature at storage yards and water fronts across the country as the oil industry in the US and Canada struggles to deal with a glut of waste from Alberta's tar sands production. "This is dirtier than the dirtiest fuel," Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat who represents the area where the pet-coke mountain has been accumulating, told the Guardian. Peters has been pressing for full exposure of the potential health and environmental risks associated with petroleum coke, a byproduct of tar sands production. "We need to know more about this material and the impact on communities," he said. "I don't think ...
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EU's top economic official lashes out at IMF (Cached)	7.6.2013	TOI: Intl Business
The man in charge of the European Union's rescues of its debt-crippled countries has slammed the International Monetary Fund's criticism of the Greek bailout.
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China v the US: how the superpowers compare	7.6.2013	Guardian: Environment
As Barack Obama prepares for the 'no-necktie summit' with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping in California, we decided to look at the two superpowers and compare data such as health, wealth and environmental development – an inherently tricky task given the countries' markedly different systems. Can it be done? Join the debate here ... • Get the data • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian As the US president Barack Obama prepares for his meeting with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, we decided to take another look at both China and the US and see whether the two superpowers can be compared. We last did this in 2011 but were intrigued to see how it would look with updated data (where possible) and with the addition of some of your suggestions. This is by no means the definitive guide and many of the indicators, though they illustrate some interesting points, may not adequately capture the complex issues at the heart of both countries. ...
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China's environmental problems are grim, admits ministry report \| Jennifer Duggan	7.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Report by China's Environment Ministry highlights decreasing standards in the country's water and air quality China's environmental situation has been described as "grim" in an annual update on the country's environment released this week. The update by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection said that overall pollution problems were serious last year and reporting on the update, the state-controlled newspaper China Daily said there has been a "marked deterioration in China's air, water and land quality". The 2012 Environmental Conditions Report addressed water and air pollution, the two types of pollution that have received the most attention over recent months. The report found that 57.3% of the groundwater in 198 cities in 2012 was "bad" or "extremely bad", while more than 30% of the country's major rivers were "polluted" or "seriously polluted". According to the ministry's report, the air in only 27 out of 113 key cities reached air quality standards last year. China Daily said ...
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World Environment Day celebrated across State (Cached)	7.6.2013	The Assam Tribune
World Environment Day celebrated across State
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Professor uses nanotechnology to build affordable water filter (Cached)	6.6.2013	Rediff: News
Professor T Pradeep talks about the nano material he and his associates have fabricated and how it can be used in an affordable water filter in an interview with Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier.
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Press prize for campaigner who dared China officials to swim in pollution	6.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Wu Zhu named best citizen journalist after calling for environmental protection officials to swim in local waterways A social media campaigner who challenged government officials to swim in their polluted local rivers was among the winners of this year's China environmental press awards. The awards, first given out in 2010, are jointly organised by chinadialogue , the Guardian and Sina , the leading Chinese web portal, with this year's winners covering the most prominent environmental challenges facing China today: polluted drinking water, contaminated land, hazardous air and endangered wildlife. Against a backdrop of sometimes strong harassment from local officials, China's environmental reporters, civil society and citizen journalists continue to document public outrage about pollution, and the influence of Chinese social media is becoming increasingly significant. Wu Zhu, an environmental volunteer from coastal Zhejiang province, picked up the award for best citizen journalist ...
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Senior citizen found chained by son in Bangalore (Cached)	6.6.2013	New Kerala: India News
Bangalore, June 6 : A senior citizen was rescued from the roof of his son's house in Bangalore where he was kept chained everyday, reports said on Thursday.
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Goa jail food poisoning probe begins (Cached)	6.6.2013	New Kerala: India News
Panaji, June 06 : The inquiry commission, probing the food poisoning case in the two Goa jails, has asked for the records from jail, police and hospital authorities said on Thursday.
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Christine Milne: 20 people, 20 questions	6.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
The leader of the Australian Greens answers 20 questions on a range of subjects including policy, environment and culture Katharine Murphy
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BHEL celebrates World Environment Day (Cached)	6.6.2013	New Kerala: India News
Tiruchirapalli, Jun 5 : The World Environment Day was celebrated at BHEL here today as per specific theme by the United Nations - 'Think.Eat. Save' - in its endeavour to protect the environment.
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China's mega water diversion project begins testing \| Jennifer Duggan	5.6.2013	Guardian: Environment
South-north diversion project aimed at preventing water shortages has had no shortage of problems and criticism When it is completed, it will be one of the world's biggest feats of engineering. China's South-North Water Diversion Project, initially a vision of Mao's, will take water from the south of the country to the arid northern region, including the capital Beijing, which suffers from water shortages. The ambitious project has been under construction since 2002 and it is expected to take almost 50 years for all sections to be complete. It aims to pump almost 45 billion cubic metres of water a year to the north, equivalent to the water flow in the Yellow River in northern China. The water will be pumped from the Yangtze river and its basin. Testing started last week on the first phase of the eastern part of the project and according to the state-controlled newspaper China Daily, this part of the project will start operation later this year. This phase will transfer water from Jiangdu ...
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Has Agra lost the battle to pollution? (June 5 is World Environment Day) (Cached)	5.6.2013	New Kerala: India News
By Brij Khandelwal, Agra, June 4 : Even after 20 years of judicial activism, major policy pronouncements and projects worth millions of rupees, this Taj city remains pock-marked with mounds of garbage. Air and water pollution threaten the health of people and the world famous monuments that is visited by millions of tourists every year.
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High level central team rushed to Corbett park after 3 tiger deaths (Cached)	5.6.2013	New Kerala: India News
New Delhi, Jun 4 : Senior Officials of the National Tiger Conservation Authority(NTCA) and the Project Tiger have rushed to the Jim Corbett National Park in the wake of three tigers being found dead over the past week.
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