Ranbaxy to enter anti-AIDS segment
Ranbaxy Laboratories, the country's largest pharmaceuticals company in terms of sales, is to enter the anti-AIDS drugs segment.
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CIDA to disburse $5 million quake relief through voluntary agencies
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has decided to disburse all of its $5 million meant for quake relief to different voluntary agencies operating in Gujarat and India.
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Closure of polluting units ordered
The district administration has ordered the closure of 16 small scale polluting units which had shifted from Delhi to Sahibadad area. Dying and electroplating small scale units had been illegally set
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California green industry eyeing Indian Market
The environmental goods and services industry of California State is planning to open a trade and investment office in New Delhi to carve out a 10-per cent share in the Indian green
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Horses' death drags institute into row
The death of six horses at the Haffkine Institute's anti-toxin and sera department in Pune is likely to draw attention again on animal experimentation ethics and charges of cruelty towards animals at
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Oil find turns refuge into battlefield
The battle between the principle of conservation and the need for more oil has thrust the Gwich'in people in the far north of the Americas into a political battle that reaches from the Arctic to
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Melbourne find on dystrophy
Melbourne researchers have corrected the genetic defect that causes muscular dystrophy. In the groundbreaking discovery at St Vincent's Hospital, researchers from the hospital's Melbourne
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Bear essentials of preserving muscle strength
Hibernating bears are teaching scientists how they preserve muscle tone and strength during long periods of hibernation which could help to improve treatments for human muscle disorders.Researchers
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One-man mission for curing AIDS
He did not go to a medical school. The art of curing is part of his family tradition. And, 56-year-old Bhoop Narain Mandal claims that he can cure
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Mystery disease toll reaches 13
Thirteen people so far have died of the mysterious disease that has hit the town of Siliguri recently. Health experts are yet to identify the illness. The health minister is also at a
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Diarrhoea, gastro hit Tripura tribal villages
With the onset of the dry season, diarrhoea and gastroenteritis have started stalking the deep interior tribal villages in Dhalai district.According to preliminary reports, most affected are
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Brazil's AIDS strategy:It works, but upsets drug firms
Brazilian law now gives inventors exclusive rights for 20 years, protects drug inventions still in development and brings Brazil into line with the World Trade Organization Treaty called TRIPS. And
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Tiger killed in sanctuary; news 'hidden'
Bellying tall claims of the state Forest department that patrolling in parks and sanctuaries of the state had been increased to curb the growing menace of poaching, a tiger was killed a few days back
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Four poachers caught in Dudhwa
The sleuths of the Special Task Force arrested four persons of a gang involved in poaching in Dudhwa and recovered animal skins and their bones which were going to be smuggled out of the country.
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Kakrapar workers receiving 3 times higher radiation dose
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board said that the collective radiation dose received by the workers in Kakarapar atomic power station was three times more than international standards even as Atomic
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Forestry law draft stresses conservation
The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry has drafted legislation that would shift the emphasis in Japan's forestry policy to environmental and land conservation from the promotion of the
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Cannabis oil to fight mosquito
Researchers from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases(NICD), New Delhi, have found that the essential oil of cannabis sativa, could serve as an effective insecticide against larvae of
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4 million adult HIV cases in India
UNAIDS: The latest Parliamentary standing committee report on dreaded diseases has claimed that there are 8.13 million Indians who are HIV positive which is more than double the number quoted by all
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Endeavour lands after space station mission
Space Shuttle Endeavour and its crew returned to earth in triumph, ending NASA's first space station-building
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53,000 homeless people in Delhi: Study
Unemployment and poverty in rural areas of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have forced a majority of over 50,000 destitute in the Capital to live on the city's streets, found a study conducted by ActionAid