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Words from Down Under: New blog

Words from Down Under: New blog
I think wordpress is not a good alternative to blogger. trackbacks are not possible and adsense too is not possible. I like blogger the most.

Use Of Russian And Canadian Asbestos Rising In India

By Gopal Krishna

13 November, 2007
Countercurrents.org

Asbestos is a proven human carcinogen (a substance that causes cancer). Lack of health surveillance of asbestos exposed workers and consumers is an invitation to disaster from wholesale public exposure, especially babies and infants in India. Some 45 countries have banned this killer fiber. Asbestos consumption is rising dramatically in India even as U.S. Senate passed Ban Asbestos in America Act on October 04, 2007 unanimously. Asbestos is banned in Europe since 1 January 2005.

But countries like Russia, Canada, Kazakhstan and Brazil continue to produce, trade and promote this ticking time bomb in India. The Russian Federation has also been found to be exporting asbestos industry waste to India. Research is showing asbestos epidemics across the globe even in countries where it is currently banned, as the consequence of past exposure:

http://countercurrents.org/krishna131107.htm

Park Of Pollution

By K A Shaji

10 August, 2007
Countercurrents.org

The Kanjikode industrial park in Kerala is in the news for good as well as bad reasons. The 300-acre park is the second largest of its kind in the state and the state government has recently submitted a proposal to the defence ministry to establish a defence production unit there.

But the grime side of the story is that industrial pollution in the region has assumed alarming proportion. According to the tribals and the Dalits who reside in the region, Kanjikode is a hell. As many as 42 iron-smelting factories along with the soft drink giant Pepsi's bottling unit are violating the pollution control measures and industrial safety norms. Almost all the residents near the park are suffering from bronchitis, asthma, cancer and kidney diseases ever since the establishment of these units.Eight-year-old Samadhana Prabhu goes to the local government hospital every week since he is suffering from severe respiratory ailments. The doctors have advised the poor Dalit family to shift their home outside the highly polluted Vivekanada Colony in Kanjikode. But they have no place to go:

http://countercurrents.org/shaji100807.htm

India Will Have 400 Million Agricultural Refugees

It was on the cards. With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announcing the formation of a new rehabilitation policy for farmers displaced from land acquisitions, it is now official -- farmers have to quit agriculture:
http://countercurrents.org/sharma220607.htm

indian markets

The Indian economy is in a very positive situation. The markets have developped positively but in the last weeks things are stagnating a bit.