TN hooch toll rises to 47
The toll in Saturday's hooch tragedy mounted to 47 with more persons succumbing to the spurious brew since Sunday night in hamlets around Hosur in Dharmapuri district of Tamil
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India will take up floods issue with Nepal
PM : Prime Minsiter Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Thursday said India will take up with Nepal, the perennial problem of floods in northern parts of the country as most of the rivers originate from the
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IBRD-aided forestry programme launched
The State government on Thrusday launched a Rs 183 crore World Bank assisted forestry project for conservation of bio-diversity resources and derive mamimum ecological and environmental
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W Bengal basin close to disaster
Scores of panic-stricken peasants fleeing this village because of floods and erosion are haunted by a deeper fear, far worse than temporary loss of land. Much of the village is now under the flood
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Poor farmers need WTO protection
Poor farmers in developing countries need protection against a feared onslaught of exports from rich countries in the next round of world trade negotiations, the head of an international farmers
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For proper disposal of hazardous waste
When large hospitals like the Dhaka Medical College Hospital are still disposing of their waste supply by throwing it on the roadside garbage heap, there is justification for being alarmed and time
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Time to learn more about ageing
A research initiative to understand the normal process of ageing-as opposed to diseases such as Alzheimer's -was launched at the British Association meeting being held in Cardiff. The government's
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Research team testing cancer vaccine
A joint research team from Kanazawa University and the Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy said it has developed an effective type of cancer vaccine that boosts the body's capacity to mount an anti-cancer
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Over Rs. 1400 cr. overpaid to Maharashtra cotton-growers
A recent audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has pointed out that the Maharashtra Government overpaid more than Rs. 1400 crores to cotton-growers in the State during the
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2-year ban on mahogany logging in Amazon basin
Brazil on Tuesday placed a two-year ban on mahogany logging in much of the Amazon, a move environmentalists welcomed as a step towards controlling
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Government to launch anti-pan masala campaign
The Health Minister, Mr. Dalit Ezhilmalai, declared the intention of the Government to launch awareness campaigns under its National Cancer Control Programme on the harmful effects of pan masala that
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113 killed in Nepal floods
Himalayan rivers swollen by monsoon rains have killed 113 people in Nepal since mid-June and destroyed crops and houses across the country, a government official said on
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Rs 48 lakhs spent to contain sal borer pest menace
The Madhya Pradesh State Government has spent more than Rs. 48 lakhs on the trees infected by the sal borer pest, the Forest Minister, Dr. Premsai Singh, has informed the State
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Mangroves easy target of prawn mafia
Increasing illegal prawn cultivation and human pressure have posed serious threat to rare mangrove forest in Orissa, which has the second largest concentration in the country after
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New chickpea developed
By implanting two novel genes taken from cabbage and cauliflower, plant biologists in Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi have developed a new protein-rich transgenic
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Father of grape revolution to assist MP farmers
Dr. Achyut Dabholkar, father of grapes farming revolution in Maharashtra, is now exploring avenues for augmenting crop yield in Madhya Pradesh. His thrust will be to facilitate use of 20 lakh
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Basmati tag only for rice grown in Punjab, Haryana, West UP
In a politically courageous move, the Union commerce ministry has decided that farmers growing basmati varieties only in Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh will be allowed to call it basmati.
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Loose change
Alan Colman and his colleagues at PPL Therapeutics, a Scottish biotechnology firm have claimed to have found a way to coax adult skin cells from a cow into becoming heart-muscle cells in the
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Hormone may ease psychotic episodes
The natural hormone oestrogen could be a potent treatment for schizophrenia in women, and possibly men, a world-first Melbourne study has found. The study, headed by Jayashri Kulkarni of Monash
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New York battles Asian beetle
Tree experts believe they've found a new weapon against the voracious Asian long-horned beetle-a poison that's fatal to bugs when eaten. Until now, the only way to fight the spread of the insect has