More jobs planned under drought relief
The Drought Relief Committee, which reviewed the employment position in Rajasthan under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, decided to link the various activities associated with
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Air pollution is all pervasive
Air pollution is affecting not only the four metros but almost all the major cities in the country. And, if the Central Pollution Control Board is to be believed, the situation is alarming with
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Waste utilisation: emerging trends
The activities result in production of large quantities of wastes, both industrial and agricultural, whose effective disposal creates problems. These so called wastes can be transformed into a
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Flyash: HC warns Cos of contempt action
The Delhi High Court has warned heads of thermal power plants in the country for initiating action against them if they failed to comply with its order on making flyash available for manufacturing
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Fifty p.c. of world's hungry live in India: M S Swaminathan
Of the 840 million malnourished people in the world, nearly 50 per cent live in India, noted agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan said. At an International consultation on 'Freedom from Hunger and
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S Africa concerned over white maize
South Africa could run short of its staple white maize next year due to a drought hammering the southern hemisphere and potentially worsening food shortages gripping the
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New way to detect heart attacks
A technique using radioactive tracers and computer imaging can screen out thousands of people who think they are having a heart attack but are not, according to a study released Tuesday. In the
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Global fund to fight AIDS, other diseases issued its first checks
The $2.2 billion Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has issued its first checks, for programs in Ghana, Haiti and Tanzania, as officials try to demonstrate the effectiveness and
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20pc women die during delivery: report
At least 200 women out of every 1,000 die during delivery process in Pakistan, where infant mortality rate per 1,000 lives is still 87, says the State of the World Population Report 2002 launched on
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UN report highlights 'population effect' on growth
With a new logo that symbolises "openness, dialogue and youth" the United Nations Population Development Fund launched its State of World Population Report, 2002. The report, on the theme of 'People,
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E.U. to outlaw tobacco advertisements
The majority of European Union Health Ministers have agreed to outlaw tobacco advertising by July 2005. The new rules will also prohibit advertisements promoting tobacco in newspapers and at sporting
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Teams to tackle global disease outbreak
Rapid response teams to tackle global outbreaks of infectious diseases, including those that could result from the use of biological weapons, are to be created under plans announced. The World Health
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Arsenic and new research findings
Arsenic is not only tasteless, it has no smell. Because of these two factors its presence in the drinking water went unnoticed for an inordinately long time. In fact it was not noticed even when
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NICD team names UP's killer fever as encephalitis
A team from the National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) today gave a name to the mystery fever that has claimed the lives of at least 51 children in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, in the past
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Many fined for smoking and littering
Hundreds of smokers were fined $16 each in November, the first month since the introduction of outdoor no smoking zones in Tokyo's biggest business district, Chiyoda, officials
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MoU on AIDS
The Governments of Orissa and Gujarat have signed a memorandum of understanding for jointly working towards containing the spread of AIDS. The project is to ensure protection of lakhs of people from
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Kalam for scientific estimate of HIV affected
In what could be seen as scepticism towards available government figures, President Abdul Kalam has said that a scientific estimate of the number of people living with HIV needs to be done to know
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Better healthcare key to growth: UN
In an important lesson on how to reduce population growth, the United Nations Population Fund has detailed how higher investments in family planning and reproductive health services boost
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'Check Hepatitis B with preventive measures'
Delhi Health Minister Dr. A K Walia today stressed on the need for preventive measures to contain the scourge of Hepatitis B which has claimed over a thousand lives in the country this year. He was
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US firm to file Sun Pharma's 25 new drugs with USFDA
The US based Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd has signed a research and development agreement for the development and filing of upto 25 new generic drugs with Sun Pharma Global Inc., a wholly