Brain fever rampant in Kurnool
Brain fever has once again spread its tentacles in almost all the mandals of Kurnool district. Cases relating to Japanese encephalitis began pouring in from all corners of the district since October
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6 years of law on trees, not one conviction
More than six years after the Delhi Tree Preservation Act came into existence, not one person has been convicted. The Act provides for a fine and imprisonment up to six
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State to give SC report on Sakhi killing
The Andhra Pradesh government will submit a detailed report to the Supreme Court on the brutal killing and skinning of 13-month old royal Bengal tigress Sakhi at Nehru Zoological Park on October
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A great lake fills with filth
Pollution may soon kill South America's largest lake Maracaibo (Venezuela). The lake is forested with oil derricks, crowded with tankers, and saturated with sewage and chemicals. "The toxic level is
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Population density goes up in disintegrated MP
The density of population of Madhya Pradesh has gone-up after its disintegration. The yield rate of rice in Chhattisgarh, known as the rice bowl, will be 1006 kgs per hectare, much more than that of
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Even snakes, birds spread JE
It's not just pigs, even snakes, frogs, egrets, birds, bats and most domestic animals are reservoirs of the Japanese Encephalitis, commonly known as 'brain fever,' which has been taking a heavy toll
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Basmati cultivation in Kerala 'promising'
The success of basmati rice cultivation reported from some parts of Kerala is an eye opener.Its entry augurs well for the future of thousands of paddy cultivators in the State as their present
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Assam tea gardens face erosion menance
The tea heartland in Assam's Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts is facing the worst ever threat of erosion by the Brahmaputra. Unabated erosion ny the river, flowing along the southern fringe of
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Organic agriculture
More farms, less hunger : Organic agriculture (OA) has been incresingly promoted in developing countries to counteract the disastrous effects of industrial agriculture (IA). For OA movements, food
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980 barrels of oil spill in Mexico
A fractured pipeline in southeastern Mexico leaked 980 barrels of oil into two rivers that feed into a system of lagoons, the state oil company Pemex said Wednesday.The spill was controlled after
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West Nile
It's not just local, it's global : Just as the buzz about West Nile virus has begun to recede in the northeast, infected birds are being reported in Maryland and the District, and there is news of an
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In sickness and in health
Tony Blair's plan to reform Britain's National Health Service is not nearly radical enough to cure its deep-seated ills : a
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Ban on non-iodised salt to stay
Contrary to expectations, the Centre may not accept the demands of the swadeshi lobby and the Gandhian leaders and lift the ban on the consumption of non-iodised
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AIDS to orphan 28 million African children
Nearly 28 million children in African will have lost at least one of their parents to AIDS by the year 2010, causing a social nightmare for the region's countries for decade,s arrording to a report
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Vaccination rate sets record : United States childhood immunization rate reached the highest level on record in 1999.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that more than 80
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Kalandars file suit in SC to restrain animal activists
The Akhil Bharatiya Kalandar Masaet Samaj has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court, seeking to restrain animal rights activists from confiscating their performing
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The agriculture department in new budget, fish farms not for the birds
First it was blackbirds. Then came Canada geese. Now preservationists fear it could be open season on cormorants and pelicans.The fear stems from the US Department of Agriculture's appropriations
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Better forecasting 'could cut El Nino damage'
A relatively small investment could improve the accuracy of forecasts of the El Nino weather phenomenon and save billions of dollars of economic damage and thousands of human casualties, particularly
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Dwindling forests
Environmentalists throughout the world have been expressing concern over the dangerously fast dwindling of forest resources in Nepal, northern India and Bangladesh for the last three decades.
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Aravallis awaiting arrival of Yen
It has been a rather long wait for Aravallis, one of the oldest hill systems in the world, situated in north western India for funds from Japan. Since the completion of the OECF (Overseas Economic