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GOING BUST
The numbers of the state bird of Rajasthan, the
Great Indian Bustard, are dwindling alarmingly. There are just about a 1000 left by the
latest count. Despite being in the top priority category of wildlife protection,
destructive human activity, including hunting, threatens its future. |
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'STATUTORY WARNING'
So it’s finally out. The Health ministry and
the Central Committee for Food Standards has decided that all soft drinks would carry the
label ‘Not Recommended for Children’. Their objection is to presence of
artificial sweeteners, which do not have much nutritive value. |
EYE
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FACTS
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WHO figures indicate there are 3.5 million
tobacco related deaths in the world (1998), with more than half in the industrial
countries. By the 2020s the death toll is likely to be around 10 million annually, with
over 70% in developing countries. |
The Ganga is a ‘ganda
nala’ for 29 cities, 70 towns and thousands of villages who deposit their
sewage —
1.3 billion litres a day directly into the river. Factories add 260 million litres of
industrial waste. Bleaahh |
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Eeeco-Queeez II
Answer all five questions correctly and win an
illustrated story book ‘The
Chilika Lake Adventure’
Email your replies to panditji@cseindia.org |
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Reading your GTs carefully?
All questions are from previous issues of GT.1. Biogas is made up
of which two gases?
2. Which is the largest living turtle,
weighing upto 900 kg?
3. How many litres of water is being used by
the President’s Estate each day?
4. Who wrote Silent Spring, a book that pointed out
the
harmful effects of pesticides?
5. Which giant petroleum producing company
did Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa blame for his death in his last dying statement before
being executed in 1995?
Put on your thinking caps, folks. Only one all
correct entry for the previous quiz. Anyway. Congratulations to MNAnkur, Chennai. |
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