Anganwadis provide hope to Orissa's hungry
Eradicating malnutrition among 200,000 children in Orissa may appear an awesome task but the ANganwadi workers entrusted with the job under a United Nations and centrally assisted scheme are
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Foot-and-mouth outbreak feared in N. Ireland
It would be difficult to find a walk of life that hasn't been affected by Britain's growing outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. It has caused panicked reactions in Europe, and on Wednesday
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Britain puts off horse racing to check epidemic
Horse racing in Britain is to be suspended for one week from Wednesday due to the foot-and-mouth
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Improving air quality in Asian cities
A three-day regional workshop to initiate an integrated approach to improve air quality was held recently in Bangladesh. The air quality in many cities has been deteriorating for many years and
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SAARC delegates call for collective action in environmental preservation
Delegates from the SAARC countries who met in Thimphu (Bhutan) agreed that collective policies and actions were required to prevent natural disasters such as floods, landslides, earthquakes and
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MP dissolves its pollution board
As if to dissciate itself from the doings of the tainted MP State Pollution Control Board Chairman V.K.Jain, the state government has dissolved the entire board itself. The notification superceding
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Over 100 tea workers dire of gastroenteritis
At least 105 tea garden workers have died in the past few days due to gastroenteritis outbreak in Assam, according to officials on
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E1 Nino hits NZ penguins
Up to 90 percent of chicks of the world's rarest penguin species will starve to death this year and E1 Nino is the likely cause, John Darby, Assistant director of New Zealand's Otago Museum, said on
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- Tigers poisoned in Corbett, Dudhwa
The Corbett and the Dudhwa tiger reserves have both witnessed multiple tiger poisonings in the recent months, according to the latest newsletter of Tigerlink, a linkage of the people and
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'Ecomark' for jute bags proposed
Pressure from environmentalists has forced the Centre to consider use of 'hydrocarbon-free' jute bags for packaging foodgrains and sugar. Otherwise considered eco-friendly, conventional jute bags
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Special cell for disaster management in Uttaranchal
Since the whole of Uttaranchal, falls in seismic zones, 4 and 5, it is highly prone to earthquake and natural calamities like floods and landslides. A special cell is being set up in the Uttaranchal
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Local resistance casts shadow on alumina projects in Orissa
With the seven year-old anti-alumina plant agitation in Orissa's Rayagada district gathering momentum, with several veterans and organisations throwing their weight behind the agitating tribals,
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GlaxoSmithKline joins NGO in hunt for malaria vaccine
Drugs firm GlaxoSmithKline, accused of doing too little to fight disease in poor countries, said on Thursday it would work with a US non-profit group to speed up development of a malaria vaccine for
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Centre to table revised bills on farmers rights, bio-diversity conservation
The government is planning to table the revised versions of the Plant varieties Protection and Farmer's Rights (PVPFR) Bill and Biodiversity Conservation (BDC) Bill in the Parliament.
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Firm creates Africa AIDS fund to deliver free drugs
A small U.S. firm said on Wednesday it was creating a $250 million fund to buy AIDS drugs and distribute them free in Africa where price and infrastructure are huge barriers to keeping patients
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Study offers simple way to cut heart deaths
A simple, inexpensive treatment that could be used successfully by low-technology hospitals worldwide can dramatically reduce the number of deaths caused by heart attacks, researchers reported. In
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Increased vigil against TB could worsen epidemic
In a stepped-up vigil against tuberculosis, several countries are screening immigrants for the disease. The World Health Organisation, however, has said this could actually worsen the epidemic.WHO,
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New anti-malaria drug developed in Jorhat
The know-how of a potent anti-malarial drug which is active against Chloroquin-resistant malaria strains has been developed by the Regional Research Laboratory in Jorhat. The knowhow of Arteether,
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Measles claims 7 in Humla
At least seven children have died recently due to an outbreak of measles in some VDCs in the remote mountainous district of Humla in Nepal, according to a government
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Delhi govt stalls sealing drive
The Delhi government decided to halt its drive for sealing of polluting industrial units in non-conforming areas today, and announced that the units sealed so far can be desealed after fulfilling