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  Mid-day meal: Children served 1 litre milk diluted in 1 bucket of water in UP

  India | November 29, 2019 11:03 IST

  In August, a government school in Mirzapur was found to be serving flatbread with salt to schoolchildren as part of the midday meal. As a video of this got viral, a few education officials were transferred while the journalist who had broken the news was sent to jail.

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  All schools to provide two compulsory 'water-drinking breaks' for students in Goa

  India | November 27, 2019 16:01 IST

  All schools in Goa will now have to provide two compulsory "water drinking breaks" of a two-minute duration each for students during school hours every day on Wednesday.

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  Plane crashes into water off Welsh coast, pilot missing

  World | November 26, 2019 7:19 IST

  The British Air Accidents Investigation Branch  said it had sent a team "to investigate an accident involving a light aircraft."

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  NASA confirms water vapour on Jupiter's moon Europa

  Science | November 20, 2019 15:51 IST

  The study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, measured the vapour by peering at Europa through W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, US.

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  Delhi water pollution: 32 teams formed to collect 1400 water samples; test results in month

  India | November 19, 2019 18:37 IST

  This comes days after a Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) report stated that drinking water in the city failed quality test.  

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  Mumbai tops ranking for tap water quality; Delhi at bottom

  India | November 16, 2019 15:41 IST

  Releasing a study on quality of piped drinking water being supplied in 21 cities across the country, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan said on Saturday that in Delhi and 13 state capitals, tap water is "undrinkable".

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  Venus may have been habitable for billions of years: NASA Study

  Science | September 23, 2019 17:16 IST

  Forty years ago, NASA's Pioneer Venus mission found tantalising hints that Earth's 'twisted sister' planet may once have had a shallow ocean's worth of water.

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  Vastu Tips: Repair leaking taps without any delay

  September 22, 2019 9:32 IST

  Uncontrolled wastage of water can not only anger God of Water (Varun Dev) but also cause several other problems.

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  Water discovered for the first time on super-Earth exoplanet

  Science | September 12, 2019 16:24 IST

  K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only exoplanet known to have both water and temperatures that could be potentially habitable, according to the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.  

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  Water released by India creates flood scare in Pakistan

  World | August 20, 2019 0:01 IST

  A note by Pakistan's Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that has been accessed by IANS shows the extent of the scare in the Pakistani establishment after India opened outlets of the Alchi Dam. Alchi which is touted to be the world's highest dam, is a village in the Leh district of Jammu and Kashmir. 

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  Chennai Metro Water reserves first moon water supply with ISRO

  India | July 23, 2019 16:47 IST

  Even as the city's thirst is being quenched by transporting potable water by train from Jolarpettai, the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (Chennai Metro Water) is seeking water from the moon.

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  Woman set on fire by in-laws after argument over filling water

  India | July 18, 2019 20:19 IST

  A 40-year-old woman was Thursday set on fire allegedly by her in-laws following an argument overfilling water from a tap located in their property, police said.

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  'Nal se Jal' plan: Water, sanitation may attract Rs 6.3 Lakh crore investment in next 5 years, says report

  Business | July 14, 2019 14:22 IST

  According to JM Financial Institutional report, the government's new 'Nal se Jal' scheme, which aims to provide piped water connection to every household by 2024, will likely lead to a massive jump in the investment in water and sanitation.

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  NCP workers throw crabs outside residence of Maharashtra water conservation minister | Video

  India | July 09, 2019 15:57 IST

  NCP workers on Tuesday staged protest and threw crabs outside the residence of Maharashtra Water Conservation Minister Tanaji Sawant in Pune. The Minister had said that crabs were responsible for Ratnagiri's Tiware dam breach. Tiware dam located in Chiplun tehsil of Ratnagiri district, breached late night on July 2, killing 18 people.

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  VIDEO: Water gushes out from AC vent of Bengaluru-Patna Sanghmitra Express; Passengers left perplexed

  India | July 02, 2019 11:26 IST

  Puzzled, passengers of Bengaluru-Patna Sanghmitra Express informed the ticket checker who immediately passed the information to the attendant present in the coach. What led to this technical glitch is not yet know. After a few seconds, the water flow stopped.

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  Formation of Moon brought water to Earth: Study

  Science | May 22, 2019 11:25 IST

  The Earth is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilises the Earth's axis.

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  If Pakistan doesn't stop terrorism, we won't have any other option but to stop river water: Gadkari

  India | May 09, 2019 9:35 IST

  "If Pakistan doesn't stop terrorism, we won't have any other option but to stop river water to Pakistan. So India has started internally studying it. That water will go to Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan,” said Nitin Gadkari.

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  HWB to supply heavy water in India for non-nuclear use

  Science | March 26, 2019 12:24 IST

  Presently deuterated compounds are imported in the country. We intend to make heavy water available for the Indian companies to produce them indigenously at much lower costs: HWB Chairman and Chief Executive U. Kamachi Mudali

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  NASA probe finds water-bearing minerals near-Earth asteroid Bennu

  Science | March 20, 2019 19:42 IST

  Using early spectral data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft orbiting the asteroid, the team identified infrared properties similar to those in a type of meteorite called carbonaceous chondrites.

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  NASA spacecraft explored edges of Martian sea two decades ago

  Science | March 17, 2019 15:10 IST

  The landing site is on the spillway of an ancient sea that experienced catastrophic floods released from the planet's subsurface and its sediments.Nearly half a century ago the Mariner 9 spacecraft returned images of some of the largest channels in the Solar System