Crocodile death toll mounts to 27
Six more crocodile hatchlings died at the Parasinikkadavu Snake Park in Kannur on Wednesday pushing the toll to
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Bananas in Hajipur provide a flicker of hops in the heart of darkness
Aware that agriculture is the only key to their future, Bihar govt takes the first steps to better organise and inform the
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Naidu makes two-child norm must for partymen for April
Telugu Desam Party chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has ordered that the two-child norm will be strictly implemented in the party from April
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Project to protect tigers
A people's movement to protect the tiger will be initiated soon in the famous wildlife sanctuary in Rajasthan in the wake of serial deaths which claimed the lives of more than a dozen big cats in the
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Growing hope
The Prozac generation may be on to something after all. Research about to be published in the journal of Neuroscience by Jessica Malberg of Yale University and her colleagues suggest that
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The genes have IT
For the first time in its 58-year history, the Council of Industrial & Scientific Research (CSIR) has entered into a landmark knowledge-based partnership with a private sector organisation, Nicholas
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5m AIDS victims in S.Asia
Health ministers from 10 South east Asian nations met in Kathmandu to began discussing reforms in the health sector and steps to tackle an AIDS epidemic afflicting up to five million people in the
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German loan aids eco-protection
Germany has agreed to a low-interest loan to China of a billion Deutschmarks (US$450 million) to support the nation's environmental protection industry. China and Germany were deciding on priorities
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4,000 thalassemic children born in Pakistan every year
B-Thalassemia, is one of the most common inherited "single gene disorder" in Pakistan, and studies on its frequency have demonstrated a 5% carrier rate. According to unofficial estimates, over 4,000
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Hospitals store body parts without consent, Australia orders probe
Hospitals in Sydney have stored human tissue or organs from dead people for research, training and posthumous diagnosis without the consent of families, sparking a government inquiry into the
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Sakhi was killed for yagna
In a startling development to the Sakhi killing, it is emerging that the hapless Royal Bengal tigress was killed for a few drops of her blood to perform a Maha Mrityunjaya Yagna during Durgashtami,
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State moves to protect environment in west
The Chinese government issued an urgent circular yesterday banning the use of obsolete facilities, technologies and products that may worsen the pollution in the west. Jointly issued by the Sate
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Yamuna clean up not possible by 2005, says Centre
The Union Government has informed the Supreme Court that it will not be possible to clean the River Yamuna flowing through Delhi to the standard required by the apex court in its order on August 4
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Pollution keeps birds away from lake
Hussain Sagar Lake is no longer attracting the large number of migratory birds it used to. The pollution of the lake, owing largely to the immersion of idols, is keeping the birds away. The chemicals
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Are we inhaling disease and death?
Status: Critical.The air and water are poisoned,the land is soiled, the noise is deafening. An estimated 5.9 lakh Indians die each year from indoor air pollution, the highest figure for a single
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Ban May planting of rice in Punjab
Gurdev Khush : Internationally known rice scientist Gurdev Singh Khush has suggested that the government should ban planting of rice in Punjab and other northern states during the hot month of May as
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State govt seeks aid from Asian Elephant Conservation Fund
In an attempt to prevent the continuous fragmentation of natural habitats of elephants the Assam Government has sought financial assistance from the US-based Asian Elephant Conservation Fund and the
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Urgent measures needed to save India's wild tigers
Drastic and immediate steps are required to prevent the "tiger catastrophe" in the country which is dwindling. According to Mr P K Sen, director of "Project Tiger," the Ministry of Environment and
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Scientists say aging may result from brain's hormonal signals
A new study suggests that in the laboratory roundworm, and maybe people too, youthfulness is maintained by hormonal signals from the brain. When the neurons that transmit the signal suffer damage
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Ford and Firestone face wave of lawsuits
As controversy grows in Washington around the issue of defective tires, and compalaints stream in to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Ford and Firestone face a growing wave