Waiting to Inhale
First oxygen bar for the city :The first oxygen bar in the city, one of the most polluted cities in the world, is attracting customers by promising that rarest of commodities - "a breath of fresh
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Illegal mining going on near Surajkund
Illegal mining of quartzite is going on in the ecologically fragile terrain around the historic Surajkund despite the Supreme Court ban on any mining or construction activity in the
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State has one lakh HIV-infected
AIDS is no longer just a threat, a red signal in a faraway street. It has arrived in Kerala and in a big way. Health Minister V C Kabeer said a recent survey had showed that there were 70,000 to 1
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U.S. team reports Korean starvation
An estimated 300,000 to 800,000 people are dying in North Korea each year from starvation or hunger related illnesses, a U.S. bipartisan team of congressional staffers said after a weeklong
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Bolivia says region is now coca-free
Claiming victory in its battle against coca farming, President Hugo Banzer said the government had virtually wiped out drug-growing plantations in Bolivia's largest coca-producing
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China's "Father of Hybrid Rice" sows super strain
At 71, Yuan Longping the agricultural scientist is now known throughout the country as "China's Father of Hybrid Rice" for his discovery and development of high-yielding strains. Forty years on, many
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ICAR develops hybrid maize varieties
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed two 'quality protein' maize hybrids - Shaktiman 1 and 2 - which have high tryptophan and lysine content, the two essential amino acids
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Worm removed from eye in rare surgery
In what is described as a rare surgery, doctors managed to locate and remove a live worm, embedded between the cornea and iris in the right eye of a 50-year-old woman. Stated to be an unusual
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Asthmatics prone to heart disease
Asthma sufferers appear to be unusually prone to heart disease, a study found, offering new clues about the hazards of lingering inflammation. In the new study, doctors from the Kaiser Permanente
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Pilkington unveils glass that keeps itself clean
Pilkington PLC said it had invented the world's first self cleaning glass. The new product, Pilkington Activ, was developed for use in windows. The treated glass reacts chemically with the sun to
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EU may extend British food ban past March 1
The European Commission said its ban on exports of live animals, meat and dairy products from Britain following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease may last for weeks after the initial March 1
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Bush won't change AIDS drug policy
The office of the U.S. trade representative said that the Bush administration would not change the Clinton Administration's generous but contentious policy concerning AIDS drugs for impoverished
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Majority of Indian children under-five years are stunted
According to experts more than half of the counry's children, aged under-five, are "stunted." This is due to severe malnutirtion, which can impair their brain function also, experts
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Taiwan to file $2.6 b libel suit against tobacco giants
Taiwan plans to file a damage claim worth at least 2.6 billion US dollars against US tobacco companies, alleging they have intentionally covered up the harm their products have done to consumers,
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Timber mafia has free run of forest in staff's absence
Orissa Govt losing Rs 1,000 cr daily due to tree felling in areas lying unguarded after employees went on mass
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State has one lakh HIV-infected
AIDS is no longer just a threat, a red signal in a faraway street. It has arrived in Kerala and in a big way. Health Minister V C Kabeer said a recent survey had showed that there were 70,000 to 1
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Medicine for Africans
The recent announcement by the Indian drug company Cipla that it would sell AIDS therapy for $600 a year or less to African countries is a step toward commuting the death sentences now hanging over
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Could AIDS and Ebola viruses yield cure for a lung disease?
Scientists in Philadelphia have combined pieces from two of the world's deadliest microbes, the ebola virus and the virus that causes AIDS, to make a hybrid virus they hope will someday cure cystic
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Mad-Cow disease found to affect blood cells
Scientists in the UK have uncovered new evidence that mad cow disease has effects in the bloodstream, a finding that could lead to new ways of diagnosing the brain-destroying condition in livestock.
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BMC clamps down on city's watering holes
J.B. Jadhav introduces himself as a Nuisance Detector. A BMC employee, he has spent the last 12 years of his professional life waiting for men who pee in public to zip up, then to pounce on them and