- Grape juice for the heart
Drinking purple grape juice may be as effective as taking a daily aspirin to prevent the formation of blood clots that can lead to heart attacks, a preliminary study by Mr. John D. Folts of the
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Experimental crop insurance scheme scrapped
The Cabinet decided to discontinue the Experimental Crop Insurance Scheme and instead allow operation of the Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme. It directed the agriculture ministry to prepare a
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Ensuring quality control, proper certification of seeds stressed
The ECNEC(Bangladesh) yesterday approved three projects, including one for strengthening the Seed Certification Agency at an estimated cost of Tk 23.76 crore, reports UNB. The total outlay of the
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Volcano erupts as death toll climbs
The death toll in a week of catastrophic floods in Central America has swelled towards 9,000, making Hurricane Mitch one of the deadliest Atlantic storms on record, while a volcanic eruption in
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Catfish spawned under captive conditions
The only Government Fisheries College and Research Centre (FCRI) in the State, has brought cheer to fish-farming sector. It has achieved a breakthrough by spawning of the Asian catfish (clarias
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Quake kills over 4,000 in Afghan
Over 4,000 people have been killed by a severe earthquake in the northern Afghan province of Takhar, a Pakistan-based Afghan new service reported on Friday.The quake hit the city of Rustaq, 280 km
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Court seeks report on Safdarjung burns ward
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked counsel for the petitioner and the Government to inspect the premier burns ward at Safdarjung hospital, which allegedly is in a bad shape, and submit a report
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Unlicensed units spew poison
Hundreds of unlicensed factories, on both sides of Jessore Road in Barasat are posing health hazards for local residents, senior officials at the West Bengal Pollution Control Board
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Plan to save rare sea turtles
The Orissa forest department is exploring new methods to ensure protection of the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles. The move is being taken following failure of Olive Ridley sea turtles to turn up
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Horticulture package for H.P. sought
The Himachal Pradesh Minister of State for Horticulture, Mr. Narinder Bragta, has urged the Centre to grant a 'horticulture package' to the State in the form of Central assistance to improve the road
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Official denies increase in tiger killings
The Principal Secretary, Forests, Mr. V.K. Dewan, today sought to clear the air on the impression that cases of tiger poaching has increased in the State during the recent past. Talking to
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Decision soon of Aids vaccine test 2,500 to take part in first human trial here
A possible Aids vaccine could soon be tested on 2,500 drug users in Bangkok. A National Aids Commission sub-committee will decide this month whether to press ahead with Thailand's first large-scale
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Recycled hospital waste proves a needling worry
It's a place where eagles dare. And humans, too . They fight over the left-overs of Ahmedabad at the vast, stinking garbage disposal yard near pirana on the eastern extreme of the city. The municipal
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Poisonous fish affect fishermen
A large number of fishermen and their families, mostly heailing from Jamnagar and Valsad, have been affected by diarrhoea after consumping poisonous fishes. Fishermen from the Gujarat have gathered
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1,000 feared killed by Hurricane Mitch
Upto 1,000 people are feared dead after part of a mountainside, weakened by rain, fell onto five hamlets in northern-western Nicargua in the wake of Hurricane Mitch. The tragedy is likely to raise
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Your fertility is in your hands
Research by scientists in the United States has revealed that the level of symmetry of a person's hands and length of his/her fingers is a fair indicator of their fertility level, says a report in
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Industrial air pollution has increased four times
A study conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has revealed that while the GDP in India has gone up by two and a half times during 1975-95, industrial air pollution has gone up
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Bishnoi sabha to spread green mission
The All-India Jeev Raxa Bishnoi Sabha is contemplating to rope in other communities for its green cause. The need was felt as a large environment movement is picking up across the world.
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Greens take protests to Bangkok
The British producers of a filmed adaptation of the best-selling novel The Beach have enraged environmentalists in Thailand with their plans to dig up a national park beach and plant 100 coconut
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Global eco-issues at the push of a button
With the launch of GLOBE-South Asia by the Member of the European Parliament, Ms. Anita Pollack, here today, Parliamentarians in the country can now at the push of a button not only have acess to