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Indoor pollution kills 1.5mn people each year
May 1 2007, Parul G

If you think that you are safe in your air-conditioned homes then your belief is likely to receive a jolt if the new findings are to be believed, which says that each year nearly 1.5 million people succumb to indoor air pollution. Use of solid fuel...

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