Open your utility bills and leaflets fall out with tips for saving energy. Radio and television ads bombard us with messages about how to clean up our acts, and the planet, with help from the many organisations that are making ‘green' their business.

Environmental experts of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology-Kashmir (SKUAST-K) have revealed that the cause of methane contents present in polythene carry-bags in abundance, had acted as toxic due to which not only bone, blood, stomach and head ailments were detected but overall it was found that its toxic effect had also adversely affected the entire nervous system of the human body.

The Gavel of Judiciary has finally struck upon the Tobacco Industry of the Country where 250 million tobacco addicts, amounting to 60 per cent of the total population of the nation is trapped in the fangs of ‘Tobacco Epidemic'.

Browsing through the day's newspaper one cannot help but notice full-page advertisements inserted by leading institutes which coach IIT aspirants. The advertisers (the said institutes) vied with each other to insert larger and larger advertisements and brag about the number of successful candidates they had coached. Unlike our days, when there was only one merit list, we now have category-wise merit lists. We now have merit lists at the national level, state level and city level. Before long, merit lists may be released street-wise and surname-wise.

The death toll in the bomb blast which rocked Lahore Wednesday (May 27) morning is rising steadily. As per latest reports coming from the metropolis, more than 30 people have been killed and several injured critically and count is rising in the hospitals.

The trail of death and devastation that Cyclone Aila left in its wake has Bengal reeling. The death toll rose from 32 yesterday to 45 today as the Left Front government with help from the Centre tried to grapple with the enormity of the cyclone.