Rs 55 lakh to conserve Ongole bull
With a view to develop and conserve the rare breed of Ongole bull, the Central Government has sanctioned Rs 55 lakh to the Regional Agricultural Research Stations (RARS), Guntur. The RARS of Acharya
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Stress on Kyoto protocol ratification
Experts have stressed on the need for Nepal to immediately ratify the Kyoto Protocol. They were speaking at a talk program on
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Global warming looming large
Greenland's icy mountains and the island's entire ice cap could disappear in the next 1,000 years because of global warming, European scientists have warned. If that occurs, sea levels will rise by
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WB okays $39.5 m loan for State
The World Bank has approved a $39.5 million loan to Karnataka for assisting the State Government's urban water supply plans. The project will benefit about 200,000 residents in the cities of
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Primitive Jarawas or primitive scientific ethics?
The communication by Singh et al. on single nucleotide polymorphisms among the Jarawas of the Andaman Islands appears to be a purely academic endeavour. The evident outcome of the study is the discovery
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Trucks openly flout SC ruling
Every night, a caravan of 60,000 trucks passes through the city. They are poorly maintained, run on high sulphur diesel and cause air pollution. What's more, these trucks enter the city in
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Meet Seeks Jt 3rd World Front Against Biopiracy
The two-day second conference on biotechnology for Asian development has expressed concern over the "asymmetric' global intellectual property rights (IPRs) regime which has failed to protect
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'Clever' car that runs on natural gas
The race to produce ever smaller, eco-friendly cars, capable of weaving through congested city traffic, has narrowed. Engineers at Bath University yesterday unveiled a project to build a
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MCD may lose hold over food, factory licences
The factory licensing and food licenses for eating establishment departments of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi may go to the Delhi government, as proposed by the second Delhi finance commission.
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Beijing suspends plan for large dam
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has unexpectedly suspended plans for a massive dam system on the Nu River in western China that scientists have warned could ruin one of the country's last unspoiled places,
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New invention: light for rural Assam
Nripen Kalita, a science graduate from Kukurmara in Kamrup district, Assam, has invented a device which could single-handedly revolutionize the rural electrification scene in the State. R K Debgupta,
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Call for integrated river front development plan in city
The Institute of Town Planners, India, North East Regional Chapter, held a technical discussion on "River Front Development of Guwahati City' recently. It was felt that the entire stretch of the
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Govt should help endusulfan victims: MT Vasudevan Nair
Jnanpith laureate MT Vasudevan Nair has said that it was the duty of the Kerala government to help the people who have become ill following the spraying of endosulfan in some villages of Kasargod
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Aventis recalls rabies vaccine
A rabies vaccine for humans is being recalled in the United States and 23 other countries because a live strain of the virus was found in another batch made at the same time. Testing of Aventis
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Shasun to ship anti-TB medicine to WHO soon
Chennai-based Shasun Chemicals &Drugs Ltd will start supplying the anti-TB drug cycloserine to the WHO's anti-TB treatment programmes shortly. The first validated production could occur within the
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Ranbaxy wins spat with Glaxo over antibiotic
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, India's largest pharmaceutical company, announced yesterday that it has prevailed in the patent infringement lawsuit filed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) over Ranbaxy's cefuroxime
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Shifted but not saved
Experts say nearly 80 per cent of the Ashok trees transplanted in Panchsheel Park from Outer Ring Road last year are already dead or dying. But the Public Works Department, responsible for looking
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World to be free of polio by year-end
The US Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson who is on a White House mission to India and other South Asian countries to promote polio eradication is convinced that the world will
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US health secy joins polio war
The US Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy G. Thompson, is on a White House mission to India and other South Asian countries to promote polio eradication. Aiming to eradicate the disease by
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J&K to introduce farm insurance scheme
The Jammu and Kashmir government is planning to introduce farm income insurance scheme in the kharif season. It will cover losses caused to the crops due to drought and other natural calamities. The