The 23 million Africans infected with the virus that causes AIDS should be given regular doses of antibiotic to ward off fatal secondary infections, the World Health Organization and the UN AIDS
a green story : The overall greenery of the Thar desert has undergone a perceptible change in the past few decades and the credit for this largely goes to the desertification combat technology
an ointment under development appears to prevent chemotherapy from making hair fall out, a distressing side effect of cancer treatment. The clear gel has been tested only on lab rats, but developers
Efforts to end poverty around the world have largely failed because they have relief on "hitand-miss" door projects that often neglect the key role local goverments must play, a United Nations report
A new WHO research reveals that out of the 23 million births every year in India, more than seven million babies die within a month because of congenital malformations and lack of access to
study : Continuous use of nonsurgical contraceptives for about 30 months can lead to impaired hormonal secretion in women. This gives rise to congenital defects in babies such as epilepsy,
With the successful docking of two Russian cosmonauts on the Mir space station, MirCorp, the company that helped finance their journey, said it could be offering tourist trips to Mir by September.
The terrorof maneaters has struck partsof Garhwal once again. Six-year-old Babbie, who was going to his uncle's place in the hills of the Dogadda block, was devoured by a maneater. The incident
Ford Motor Co will sell a version of its Escape small sport utility vehicle powered by gas and electricity in 2003, with fuel economy close to 40 miles per gallon in city driving. The Escape hybrid
At least 65 people in Japan have developed the fatal brain wasting disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, after becoming infected by brain tissue that was collected from European corpses, it emerged on
Experts from United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the Indian Medical Association extolled the advantages of consuming iodised salt and said since India was an iodine-deficient country, the
More and more mothers are dying in UP due to blood loss during child birth and lack of timely blood tranfusion. In 1999, of the total 55,96,449 births that took pact in the state, 398,556 babies were
British Geological Survey has found arsenic contamination of groundwater beyond permissable limit in Bangladesh's 53
South Korean agriculture authorities ordered the closure of all livestock markets in a bid to stem the spread of hoof-and-mouth disease across the
Swarms of blood-drinking bats have swooped down near Mayan ruins of Chiapas town of Palenque, killing thousands of head of cattle, injuring dozens of people and causing the biggest rabies alert in
More than 60 firefighters are still battling a chemical fire in Scarborough almost 24 hours after it began. The blaze has been contained at the centre of the U.S.E. Hickson Products plant on Wallsend
The Centre has decided to take up with Kathmandu the perennial problem of floods in north Bihar, after relations are normalised with neighbour in a fortnight, in a bid to formulate an integrated
On March 17, Marc Merger stood up and walked, something he hasn't done for ten years. The 39-year old Frenchman was involved in a car crash in 1990 that severed his spinal cord and left him
The Manipur Wild Life Advisory Board has constituted a committee to arrange creation of an additional home for the rare animal species of browantlered deer, sangai in local tongue, at a suitable
CM : Chief Minister Om Prakash chautala today declared that flood prevention measures are being taken on a war footings in the state. Addressing a public meeting in Data Village about 50 km from
