Guidelines for the battle against bone loss
Osteoporosis is a silent disease. A fracture is usually the first sign that a person's bones have become dangerously weakened. But it doesn't have to be that way. According to guidelines issued
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Anti-filaria herb found
Scientists of the Regional Plant Research Centre (RPRC) in Bhubaneswar have achieved a breakthrough in identifying a medicinal plant having the potential to kill micro filarial parasite in-vitro.
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South American endangered fish swim against the tide
Poverty is driving a group of indigenous people in Guyana to sell the Arapaima - one of the world's largest freshwater fish illegally to the Brazilian consumers. While government officials and some
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Wiehahn's own paradise
The West Coast National Park in South Africa is struggling to buy "critical" land from its owner, Kassie Wiehahn. Kassie Wiehahn is not only sitting on pristine property at Oudekraal, but also on
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International workshop on AIDS begins
A four-day international workshop focussing attention on young people as vital players in fighting AIDS began here today, with stress on the fact that of the four million people in India infected by
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Many Mozambicans refuse to flee flood
Relief officials said that they were forcing rural Mozambicans to evacuate their homes ahead of rising floodwaters that have killed 62 people and left more than 81,000
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Foes of Isahaya project get more good news
Yoshio Yatsu, head of Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry, on Friday expressed qualified readiness to open the lock gates of a huge reclamation dike that traverses Isahaya Bay in
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Greens' drive against shahtoosh shawls
Kashmiri traders have challenged the long-standing assumption that popular shahtoosh shawls can only be made by killing the endangered Tibetan antelope, saying it was just a myth. The shahtoosh used
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Police start filing FIRs against Bhuj builders
As public demand for action against builders has snowballed, the Kutch police have finally taken note of complaints regarding building collapses in Bhuj and
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Group asks public about 'green' practices
In a bid to provide basic information of consumer attitudes towards environment-friendly industries, products and lifestyles, the China Consumers Association yesterday launched a "green census". The
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Bio-medical waste treatment firm told to locate plant near Vandalur
The private bio-medical waste treatment company, awarded the contract by the Chennai Corporation for setting up treatment facilities, has been asked by the Pollution Control Board to locate its plant
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Bhopal gas case takes new turn
The case relating to the Bhopal gas tragedy today took a new turn with the Supreme Court being informed that the Madhya Pradesh Government had received 10.29 lakh claim applications from the victims
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EU opening to Third World hailed
The European Union's decision to open its markets to almost all products from the world's poorest countries is being hailed as a dramatic gesture that could help alleviate some of the suspicions that
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Loggers decimate a Solomons island
When a Malaysian company offered a swag of inducements in return for logging concessions on their land, the 130 residents of Mbeiporo, an impoverished village on Vella Vanella island in Solomon
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Dispatches from flood country
A look behind the Yangzi dikes reveals martyrdom, mayhem and tragic mistakes that Beijing would rather keep quiet : a
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India to seek changes in WTO terms
India will seek amendments to some World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements at the special general council meeting in Geneva on September 24 and 25. Commerce ministry officials said India would take
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Frequent fliers exit the Pong dam transit lounge
Dying rivulets are not the only signs of worsening conditions in this picturesque area. The birds are also fast disappearing. Water levels at the Pong Dam lake-north India's largest habitat for
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Ganga fury leaves 2 lakh marooned
The Ganga burst through an embrankment at Bhutni in West Bengal, marooning 200,000 people as the flood situation in this district deteriorated further . The Army, called out to assist the civil
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Breast cancer surgery now bloodless
The doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences claim to have carried out for the first time in the world major breast cancer surgeries through a "virtually bloodless' procedure that uses
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Environmentalists seek to save new Calif. nat' monument
Several big environmental groups launched a drive on Tuesday to save California's newly-established Giant Sequoia National Monument, saying a lawsuit seeking to dismantle it would spell disaster for