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Sri Lanka reaches 131-3 vs India amid pollution drama

Dec 3, 2017

Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal put on 56 runs for the fourth wicket as Sri Lanka reached 131-3 at stumps on day two of the third test against India in Delhi on Sunday.

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Sri Lankan cricketers wear face masks as pollution hits test

Dec 3, 2017

Sri Lanka's cricketers wore face masks and the bowlers complained of shortness of breath as play was stopped three times during the middle session because of concerns over air pollution on day two of the third test match against India

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Dec 1, 2017

US world's biggest supplier of heavy oil refining byproduct

The U.S. is supplying vast quantities of a dirty fuel waste to India, where critics say it's contributing to alarming air pollution and where the country's highest court is pushing for a nationwide ban

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Dec 1, 2017

Former President Barack Obama: 'Think before you tweet'

When former President Barack Obama spoke to a leadership forum in India's capital, he never once used the words "Donald Trump" and was careful to avoid any direct reference to his successor in the White House

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Dec 1, 2017

US exporting dirty fuel to already pollution-choked India

US refineries unable to sell a dirty fuel byproduct at home are exporting it to energy-hungry India

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Indian police use elephants to clear their protected habitat

Nov 27, 2017

Indian police have taken the unusual step of using elephants in an attempt to evict hundreds of people living illegally in a protected forest area in the country's remote northeast

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Nov 20, 2017

New Delhi's polluted air doesn't deter distance runners

People breathing New Delhi's acrid air lately have suffered burning eyes and rasping throats, so the notion of thousands of distance-runners gulping down lungful after lungful may have seemed strange

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Nov 19, 2017

India passenger train hits and kills 2 Asian elephants

Two endangered Asian elephants have been hit and killed by a passenger train near the city of Gauhati in northeastern India

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Red Cross: 1 million Yemenis at risk of cholera outbreak

Nov 17, 2017

An international aid group says one million people across three Yemeni cities are at risk of a renewed cholera outbreak and other water-borne diseases following the closing of airports and sea ports by a Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels

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Hundreds of New Delhi students march to demand cleaner air

Nov 15, 2017

Hundreds of students have marched in India's capital to demand action to improve the city's toxic air. New Delhi has been wrapped in a choking haze for much of the past week

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