Population may reach 9.4 billion by the year 2050, says UN
The United Nations has predicted that the world population will grow to 9.4 billion by 2050 and would stabilise to about 11 billion by
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14-yr-old invents quake alarm clock
Fourteen-year-old Pooja Vir has invented an earthquake alarm clock. Pooja has been felicitated with a plaque by her school, the Government Senior Secondary school, Dalma in Haryana, where she
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Controls to be used to avoid clashes Prolonged drought begins to take toll
Thailand Irrigation Department will issue a timetable for the release of water to areas designated for rice and other crops during the dry season to prevent people fighting for supplies. The
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Vaccine for chicken pox
Paediatric vaccine specialist SmithKline Beecham yesterday announced a vaccine against chicken pox. This is the first vaccine of its kind in the world against the disease. A single dose of the
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EU to fund 126-cr forestry project
The European Union has sanctioned a Rs 126 crore project to bring more Haryana land under green cover, according to the state's Minister for Forest, Mr Jagdish Yadav. Mr Yadav said that a high
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Prabhu meets senior UK Minister
Environment Minister Suresh Prabhu became the first Indian minister to meet a senior British Cabinet memeber since the Labour Government's decision to isolate India politically, following the May
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Designer babies
Scientists say that, with gene therapy, they may soon be able to cure a child's inherited disease before he is even born. But should they be allowed to create kids with made-to-order traits? : a
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HC warns Apollo against denying teratment to poor
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday warned the management of super speciality Apollo Hospital here that the full cost of land could be imposed on it, if it failed to implement the agreement with the
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Storm crosses coast near Vizag, relief teams rushed
A cyclonic storm of "very severe intentsity" accompanied by heavy rain and gale, crossed the North Andhra Pradesh coast near Visakhapatnam on Sunday evening causing damage to crops, dislocating
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Famine fears grow in PNG
Papua New Guinea's government said it would overhaul its drought relief efforts, after Australian experts claimed official incompetance was worsening the severity of the country's
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Mountains of waste : Nepals seeks solution
Nepal will try to deter foreign climbers from leaving garbage on its mountains by extending to all its peaks a levy now collected only in the region around Mount Everest, a Tourism Ministry Official
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Black bears may help cure muscular atrophy
Hibnerating American black bears have a knack of preserving muscle strength that could provide clues to curing muscular atrophy and problems of space weightlessness, say US scientists in an article
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Foot - and - Mouth spreads in UK, panics Europe
Foot-and-mouth disease spread from England to Scotland and Northern Ireland Thursday, prompting other European countries to tighten steps to disinfect travelers and vehicles from the British Isles.
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Bush seeks to fully fund US food safety programs
President George W. Bush proposes in his first budget to fully fund the Agriculture Department's food safety programs, including money to pay for 7,600 meat and poultry inspectors. According to White
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40 per cent suffering from arsenic related diseases in Meherpur
The arsenic mitigation programme in Kushtia and elsewhere in the south-western region of Bangladesh has suffered a set-back due to lack of supervision by the concerned agencies. The health authority
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WHO warns of youth alcohol danger in Internet age
Aggressive alcohol marketing endangers young people's lives and governments must work across borders to protect children in the Internet age, the World Health Organisation said. This was stated by
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Priority to prevention
The outbreak of gastroenteritis in Bangalore city and its suburbs calls for immediate action by civic authorities. There is the need to curb the spread of the disease immediately. The outbreak of
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Karnataka's anti-blindness programme extended
A national mission in bioinformatics, extension of a Rs 140-crore Denmark-assisted programme on control of blindness and allocation for the Bharat Gold Mines Limited for separation of manpower are
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HC tells govt to provide funds to fight malnutrition
Taking a grim view of the large number of tribal children dying because of malnutrition in the Melghat area of Amravati district, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court has asked the state
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Protect indigenous seeds
Genetically-developed hybridized seeds increasingly used by Nepali farmers have been supplanting indigenous seeds. The reason for this unfortunate state of affairs is that the Nepal government has