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Mexican volcano erupts, rains ash
Mexico's majestic Popocatepetl volcano boomed out a loud eruption, spewing out a massive gas cloud and setting off a series of tremors reaching up to 3.3 on the Richter scale. A massive explosion of Popocatepetl would be a major disaster for the 500,000 people living in the vicinity as also for the 18 million people living in Mexico city, just 64 km away.
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Five more tiger reserves to be set up in state
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has decided to support ten more protected areas in the country in 1998 while entering the second year of its three-year tiger conservation programme. The selection was made on the assumption that the support provided would improve the habitat, increase prey species as well as tiger population in the near future.
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Violence hits Surat
The spectre of riots returned to haunt Surat on Thursday as hundreds of diamond workers went on the rampage in Varachha and neighbouring areas, setting fire to workshops and resorting to large-scale violence. The workers are reportedly protesting against the retrenchment of around 700 employees of a leading diamond unit.
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Micro-organism for cleaning industrial water
A new filling agent for bio-filtering water has been developed by Russian scientists. The filling agent, consisting of some micro-organisms within porous ceramic assemblies of claydite clays, can process the environmentally hazardous components of water.
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