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Students stage protest against indiscriminate fee hike in KSLU

Students stage protest against indiscriminate fee hike in KSLU They highlight the need for corrective measures to resolving various issues affecting students in university in Hubballi This article was created based on information from various sources and rewritten for clarity and... read more »

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Eight injured after tyre burst triggers three-car pile-up on Hyderabad-Vija...

Eight injured after tyre burst triggers three-car pile-up on Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway ## Multi-Vehicle Collision Disrupts Traffic on National Highway 65 Following Tyre Incident **Hyderabad, India –** A significant traffic disruption occurred on National Highway 65, the crucial artery... read more »

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At least 14 killed as Aramco helicopter crashes in Saudi Arabia

At least 14 killed as Aramco helicopter crashes in Saudi Arabia **Tragedy Strikes Saudi Arabia as Aramco Helicopter Suffers Fatal Crash** A devastating helicopter crash in Saudi Arabia has claimed the lives of at least 14 individuals, prompting a swift response from authorities and casting a shadow... read more »

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Inspectors say Syria chemical site abandoned

Inspectors say Syria chemical site abandoned

Chemical weapons inspectors say Syria has provided video and photographic evidence that shows a chemical weapons site near war-torn Aleppo has been dismantled and abandoned. In a mission update... read more »

Thousands flee as supertyphoon nears Philippines

Thousands flee as supertyphoon nears Philippines

Manila – Schools in some provinces of Philippines were closed Thursday as supertyphoon Haiyan came nearer to the country’s eastern... read more »

50 percent of Pakistanis support government: Survey

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Islamabad – Fifty percent of Pakistan’s population supports the present government, with 49 percent favouring the opposition, a survey has... read more »

High level of polonium found in Arafat’s Bones.

High level of polonium found in Arafat's Bones.

Bern – A detailed investigation by Swiss forensic experts has found at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive polonium in the late Palestinian... read more »

Russia denies contacts with Taliban

Russia denies contacts with Taliban

Moscow – The Russian foreign ministry Wednesday denied media reports that a diplomat has held talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban movement over the... read more »

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has commissioned a red mud powder producing unit at Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha, describing it as first of its kind in alumina industry tackling major environmental hazards. “The unique project of producing red mud powder has been commissioned in a fully mechanised and automatic plant. The system has been developed in-house after continuous research for more than three years,” a senior company official said in a statement on Tuesday. Giving details of the project, Mukesh Kumar, president and COO of VAL said the project which was commissioned last week is the first of its kind in the world and has been set up with a capital expenditure of around Rs. 50 crore. This will have advantages like savings in caustic consumption by 10-15 kg per tonne of alumina, minimising land requirement by 50 to 60 per cent, and doing away with wet red mud storage thereby eliminating environmental hazards, he said. The powdery red mud can easily be utilised in cement industry as well as in other Industries, Mr. Kumar said. Red mud is a waste from alumina industry and its disposal and utilisation has always been a matter of concern for environmentalists as well as alumina industry. Although, the alumina technology is more than 100 years old but no solution could be evolved by the industry to avoid storage of red mud slurry, sources said. As the slurry is alkaline in nature and its generation is nearly one and a half times of alumina, world over millions of tonnes of red mud is lying in various red mud ponds except in some countries where it is discharged into the sea. In any alumina refinery, a major portion of land is used for handling this waste. Although, red mud is rich in iron and titanium, no use could be made till now mainly due to presence of caustic soda. Looking into the serious nature of hazard such red mud ponds may have, MoEF has formed a special project only few months back as National Mission for Red Mud to sponsor and promote research in red mud utilisation, sources said.

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