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    These 100 per cent Polluted Water Popsicles, are flavoured with plastic waste, sewage, cigarette butts, condoms, oil spill, harmful dyes, resin, dead fish, wrappers, bottle caps et al.Decaf
    Taste of waste: Deadly popsicles up for grabs!

    These delicious-looking but deadly ice candies cleverly highlight the global problem of water pollution.

    17 Sept 2017 6:29 AM IST

    Clockwise from top left: New York-based Nepalese couturier Prabal Gurung getting off the helicopter to have breakfast at Everest; the spread for the morning breakfast; Gurung and and the Bigspenders at the breakfast table.Life
    Peak season: Breakfast at the top of the world

    If you have the money, you can pop up to Mt Everest for breakfast almost any day of the year.

    6 May 2017 12:38 AM IST

    Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh (Photo: PTI)India
    NDA govt pumps funds to woo UP ahead of elections

    With elections approaching, it’s pouring funds in Uttar Pradesh.

    25 Sept 2016 6:42 AM IST

    Centre’s crop insurance scheme a damp squibIndia
    Centre’s crop insurance scheme a damp squib

    In what could be considered a blow to BJP-led NDA government’s revamped crop insurance scheme — Pradhan...

    24 Sept 2016 2:42 AM IST

    Kalyan-Dombivali in ‘Smart’ listMetros
    Kalyan-Dombivali in ‘Smart’ list

    Kalyan-Dombivali, on the outskirts of Mumbai, has been included in the third list of 27 smart cities announced by Union...

    21 Sept 2016 7:06 AM IST

    27 new cities including PM’s Varanasi in ‘Smart City’ listIndia
    27 new cities including PM’s Varanasi in ‘Smart...

    Three more cities from poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency Varanasi,...

    21 Sept 2016 2:08 AM IST

    One more UP city likely to find place in 3rd listIndia
    One more UP city likely to find place in 3rd list

    At least one more city from poll-bound Uttar Pradesh is likely to figure in the third list of 27 smart cities that Union...

    17 Sept 2016 5:05 AM IST

    Government to set up observatories for climate change studyIndia
    Government to set up observatories for climate change study

    Union environment ministry is all set to launch the Long-Term Ecological Observatories (LTEO) to bridge the gap of...

    14 Sept 2016 12:35 AM IST

    Government finds Rs 20,000 crore not enough to clean GangaIndia
    Government finds Rs 20,000 crore not enough to clean Ganga

    More than a year after the Narendra Modi government kept an outlay of Rs 20,000 crore for its Namami Gange programme,...

    11 Sept 2016 5:54 AM IST

    Rajasthan water table on the riseIndia
    Rajasthan water table on the rise

    Even as the Centre plans to come up with stringent legislation for extraction of groundwater in view of worryingly...

    8 Sept 2016 12:49 AM IST

    Government criticised for claiming arsenic kit costlyIndia
    Government criticised for claiming arsenic kit costly

    The parliamentary committee on estimates called the government’s claim that arsenic testing kits, used to check...

    26 Aug 2016 7:12 AM IST

    Ganga Act will empower govt to punish pollutersIndia
    Ganga Act will empower govt to punish polluters

    The proposed Ganga Act, which, if enacted, will be the first-of-its-kind legislation for river regulation in India, its...

    22 Aug 2016 1:53 AM IST

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