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Bitter sweet mess

Exposure to dioxins may lead to diabetes
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- - Health Effects
  - Cancer
  - Health Care
  - Diabetes
  - Dioxin
Case history

CBI inquiry pending against political bigwigs of Haryana
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Toxic bargain

In a desperate bid to tide over its financial crisis, the Kazakh government is studying a proposal to import radioactive waste from abroad and bury it in the country. Though the venture will result
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Threat perception

ASAHI SHIMBUN DAILY . Tokyo . October . 2002 Even as North Korea acknowledges its covert nuclear programme, a poll by the Tokyo-based newspaper Asahi Shimbun reveals that almost 90 per cent of
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Going into overdrive

Canada has embarked on a major wildlife conservation campaign. The country is planning to create 10 new national parks, spread over 100,000 square kilometres, and five marine conservation areas over
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Dubious diversion

Low cost <font class='UCASE'>hiv</font> drugs for Africa reach Europe instead
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- - Trade
  - Drugs
  - Drug Industry
  - AIDS
  - Africa
  - Europe
New neighbour

A recently found object that is roughly half the size of Pluto might be the smallest planet
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- - Astronomy
  - Planets
Give science priority over politics

Noted agronomist and former chairperson of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) I C Mahapatra has provided crucial scientific inputs in the Cauvery river case. He prepared an affidavit
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Benchmarks in place

With the introduction of national standards for organic foods in the us, the fastest growing sector of American agriculture has received a major impetus. The new guidelines stipulate that all
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Smouldering row

Plan to evacuate Jharia residents: more to it than underground fires?
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Planting doubt

A new research creates controversy about the efficacy of Ginkgo biloba supplements
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Industrial discharge: seaward ho!

As rivers spill over, the sea becomes the new dumping destination in coastal Gujarat
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Breathing room

Vashram Kanabhai, a head constable in Surat traffic police, collapsed on duty. The 44-year-old cop's lungs were diagnosed as having been damaged. Kanabhai's case is not an isolated one. Many of
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No more cry

Researchers may soon develop onions that don t have tear inducing chemicals
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Clandestine exercise

North Korea has finally acknowledged having a secret nuclear arms programme involving enriched uranium. The plan is in violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework deal under which the Communist state had
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On thin ice

Sweden blows hot and cold on Iceland s reinduction into whaling panel
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Real laureates

This year s Nobel prizes are truly grounded in practicality
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- - Cancer
  - Medical Research
  - AIDS
  - Biotechnology
  - Scientists
  - Awards
  - California
Cheap fare

The modest makhana is what you need to keep the doctor away
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- - Vegetables
  - Research
Stiff resistance
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Rights issue unresolved

Validity of Kudremukh National Park questioned
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