New study suggests the cure for obesity is to drink water.

It has agreed to submit a 'no objection' statement to an American court for directing Union Carbide to clean up the contamination caused by its abandoned factory in the Madhya Pradesh capital.

The court also directed the Batra Hospital to file the BSP leader's treatment record, specifically mentioning whether toxins were present in his blood.

Environmental activist Vandana Siva said on Thursday that the recent decision of the Union Cabinet to liberalise the agriculture sector and deregulate prices would end up in privatising the country's water sector as water was the principal ingredient

Semicarbazide has been linked to cancers, liver damage, miscarriages and birth deformities in animals.

The government is considering an independent evaluation of plants of cola majors - Coke and Pepsi - in the vicinity of the Yamuna river to check whether there is any adverse environmental impact due to the functioning of these units.

The tests, according to the report, showed that Pepsi products from its plant in Khalapur in Raigad district contained 0.6 mg of lindane, which is above the permissible limits.

The gravest danger… facing America and the world is outlaw regimes that seek weapons of mass destruction, the US president said in his State of the Union address.