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Adding more trains on the Indo-Gangetic plain route without improving track capacity and signalling has not only added to delays but also turned the stretch vulnerable and accident-prone, suggests a new study. Analysing publicly available Indian Railways ...

Dr Nori Dattatreyudu, executive trustee and chief scientific adviser to the Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, addressing the media on the final day of the Global Oncological Summit-2-13 in Hyderabad on Sunday. Dr ...

New Delhi: The (NGT) today sought response from the Centre and states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on a plea which claimed that burning of agricultural residue in these states is not only polluting the environment but also causes smog in the ...

Emissions from Indian coal plants caused 80,000 to 115,000 premature deaths and more than 20 million asthma cases between 2011 and 2012, reveals a report presented to India's government on Monday . According to the document Coal Kills An ...

LUCKNOW: Banke and its extended clan of 30 other rhinos at the Dudhwa national park will meet a new set of counterparts from Assam soon as the decks have been cleared for the second phase of rhino re-introduction programme in Uttar Pradesh. The ...

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The year 2013 opened on a disastrous note for the one-horned rhinoceros of the northeastern Indian state of Assam. At the beginning of April, officials in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP), one of the last retreats left in South Asia for these ...

The country we know and love won't be around forever. Even as you read this, a tiger somewhere is being hunted for skin or for sport. A stately monument is witnessing its last few summers. A lush forest is being sacrificed in our thirst for ...

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