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Presents news briefs from around the world, as reported on December 7, 1995. Discovery of tomb of a pharaoh's minister in Egypt; Emergence of cobra on the street of New Delhi; Report on the purity of New York City's air and waterways; More.

Reports on the protest by students and professors in New Delhi, India on the government's efforts to privatize higher education. Details on the Ambani-Birla report prepared for the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry; Status of college and university tuition in India.

The article focuses on Orange County Register Communications Inc. which will start a one-month trial with Indian company Mindworks Global Media at the end of June 2008. Mindworks Global will take over copy-editing duties for some stories published in the Orange County Register and will handle page layout for a community newspaper. Mindworks' Web site discloses that the company is based outside New Delhi and provides high quality editorial and design services to global media firms.

Plastic, especially in the form of nonbiodegradable bags, has become a target of the environmentally conscious. From San Francisco to South Africa, cities have outlawed, taxed or otherwise restricted plastic bags, even here in the developing world where immediate needs, like jobs, often outweigh nobler aims. Just last month New Delhi passed a preliminary ban imposing a five-year jail term or a 100,000-rupee fine, about $2,055, on anyone caught carrying or handing out plastic bags. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the decline of Amil Ambani Group's shares, amidst the probe of the CBI on its role in the telecommunications licensing scandal, in New Delhi, India.

The article reports on the protest in New Delhi, India on September 20, 2014 which called on the government of India and world leaders to address climate change at the United Nations (UN) summit in New York on September 22, 2014.