White revolution goes trans-border
Nepalese officials hope the newly signed agreement between India and Nepal will allow Nepalese farmers to export milk into the Indian market and avoid the annual losses during the flush season.
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Portugal calls for EU food safety agency
A senior Portuguese official has called for the creation of an EU food safety agency to set uniform standards in the 15 -nation bloc and prevent a repetitionof crises like mad cow disease and the
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Research to cure coconut trees urged
The Kerala governor Sukhdev Singh Kang yesterday emphasised the need for intensive and extensive research to eradicate the diseases affecting coconut
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Sunflower, bajra hybrids developed
The CCS Haryana Agricultural University scientists have developed two new hybrids of "sunflower" and
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TB/HIV
the dual health hazard : Nepal, along with the entire SAARC Region, is facing a dual health challenge in the form of tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS, two deadly diseases that are making a combined assault
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Brain-death organ transplant halted
Japan's Health and Welfare Ministry has ruled out organ transplants from the body of a teenage girl who was declared brain-dead Sunday at a hospital in Aichi Prefecture, ministry officials told
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AIDS outbreak feared for U.S. tribes
Before Lisa Tiger got the awful news late in the afternoon of July 5, 1992, neither she nor any of her friends or relatives had heard of a Creek-Seminole Indian's getting a diagnosis of H.I.V. Though
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Researchers discover a helpful side of pain
What good is pain? Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco think that in the case of an inflamed joint, that ache may be the body's way of telling its most aggressive defenders,
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Prayers for an elephant
Thailand's latest landmine victim stirs emotions and renews concern over the plight of the pachyderms : a
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New fires destroy forest
Fires which have resumed in Indonesia's Sumatra and Kalimantan regions have ravaged at least 5,561 hectares of forest and scrub in the past
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Good news for spinal injuries
An Israeli company has developed a new technology to repair spinal chord injuries similar to that which paralysed superman actor Christopher Reeve, a company spokesman announced on Tuesday.
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Vitamin giants to settle antitrust suit
Six giants of the vitamin industry have agreed to pay more than $1.1 billion to settle a landmark price-fixing lawsuit, the largest sum ever paid in an antitrust case, sources close to the
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Despite surpluses, parkland program losing ground
In a time of record budget surpluses, U.S. Congress is proposing to spend among the smallest amounts ever on what is thought to be one of its most popular programs: buying and preserving parkland.
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Pledge given to curb avoidable blindness
The Chinese Government has vowed to eradicate avoidable blindness by 2020. If the target is met, about 360,000 Chinese will escape blindness each year and many blind people will regain their sight.
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Wendy death toll hits 133
The death toll from tropical storm Wendy has risen from 118 to 133 in Wenzhou, eastern Zhejiang Province of China, a local government official told China Daily yesterday.The violent rainstorm, which
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Monsanto denies plans to end UK tests
The US biotechnology group, Monsanto Co., has denied newspaper reports that they planned to pull out of genetically modified crop trials in Britain due to public hostility.The Independent on Sunday,
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Health project mired in controversy
The Delhi Medical Association has crossed swords with its kparent body, Indian Medical Association, accusing the latterof "gross mismanagement" in its pilot project of the Reproductive and Child
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UK increases aid to eradicate poverty in India
The British government's Department for International Development launched its Country Strategy for India in New Delhi on Monday. The strategy envisages an enhancement of its contribution towards
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Action sought on murder of rights activist
Human Rights Network Orissa (HURINEO) has urged the State Government to take prompt action against those responsible for the murder of the tribal activist involved in the anti-liquor movement last
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A new zoo panel set up
Recently a Zoo Health Advisory Committee has been constituted to take care of the Delhi Zoo animals health. The panel will meet once in three months to review the health of