Haffkine Biopharma files plea in HC over polio vaccines
Haffkine Biopharmaceuticals Corporation Ltd (HBCL), a state govvernment undertaking, told the Bombay high court on Wednesday that the potency of about 600,000 polio vaccine, which they had
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Smoking doubles risk of Alzheimer's disease
Dutch doctors warned Friday that smoking can more than double a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Smoking not only increases the chances of getting the most common form of senile
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Environmentalists seethe over budget's lowering of fuel duty
Whilst the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced assistance for the regeneration of brownfield sites, and an increase the landfill tax in his budget speech on 7 March, environmentalists have
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Tight security in Uttaranchal parks
Faced with the sudden increase in the number of poaching cases in the protected areas, the Uttaranchal government is planning to beef up security in and around the two national parks-Corbett National
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Chevron denies Angolan oil spill responsibility
U.S. oil company Chevron has denied responsibility for an oil spill that has affected fishing near its operations in northern Angola, church-run radio reported on Friday. "Chevron investigated and
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Yale pressed to help cut drug costs in Africa
Trying a new tack to drive down the price of AIDS medicines, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders has asked Yale University to permit South Africa to import a generic version of a drug on
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Green groups push Bush for utility plant cleanups
A coalition of 13 organizations on Friday called on President George W. Bush to fulfill what they termed a presidential campaign pledge to clean-up pollution generated by electric power plants. The
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- Delhi to be greener by end of year
The Delhi chief minister, Mr Sahib Singh Verma, says his government will launch various schemes to "change the face of Delhi" to a cleaner, greener place in the next few
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The plan to refloat Venice
The city of Venice is slowly sinking for 1,500 years-a result of the rising Adriatic and the sagging ground on which the city was
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Brussels moots joint effort to cut drugs prices
The European Commission has proposed a joint effort with the Bush Administration to bring down the cost of drugs to treat AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis in developing countries.
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What the little people know
There's a simple acronym that explains these miracles in forestry: JFM. The mantra of Joint Forest Management has captured the imagination of a generation of planners, bureaucrats and
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Blair pledges 100 million to solar, wave power and offshore wind.
The UK Prime Minister has given his second, and strongest speech on the environment, pledging
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Indian allergies
Twenty-five per cent of the population of India suffers from one or more allergic diseases and this has caused an alarm among medical professionals, according to Dr Wiqar Shaikh, a leading
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Hope on horizon as Spain fire rages
Firefighters hoped for cooler and wetter weather to help them extinguish a fire that has torched an estimated 22,000 hectares of forest and crop land in Spain's north eastern Catalonia region. Two
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The new Ho Chi Minh trail
Animals traded in Vietnam include relatively common snakes, pangolins, lizards, birds turtles and civet cats, whose scent glands are used for potions to induce abortions. The volume is enormous.
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Hungry animals run amuck at flooded Kaziranga sanctuary
The usually docile animals of the Kaziranga National park have, after a month-long desperate attempt to flee incessant floods, hunger and killer vehicles, turned violent. In the last two weeks, a
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Indo-German forestry project phase-II to begin in '99
The Forest Minister, Mr. Roop Singh Thakur, has said that the second phase of the Indo-German Changer project for boosting forestry and horticulture in Himachal Pradesh will start from next year. The
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Ghana National Park loses an inmate
The Keoladeo Ghana National Park near Bharatpur in Rajasthan has lost one more of its sensations. Anbur, the artificially hatched Siberian crane male, brought to the park in January 1997 from
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Buffalo death toll mounts to 60
The toll of buffaloes dying of food piosoning at Andheri has reached 60. Over the past two days 20 more animals have succumbed to food poisoning. The buffaloes were fed their usual fodder mixed with
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First case of dengue reported
The first case of dengue in Delhi this year has been reported from the South Ganeshpura area of East delhi. MCD officials say that the patient, an engineer, could have contracted the disease from his