Phase II of AIDS project cleared
The second phase of the National AIDS Control Programme with an outlay of Rs 1425 crore has been approved by the Union Cabinet. The first phase of the programme is said to have concluded in
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Fluoride poisons Gujarat village
It has all the makings of a ghost village. Two thousand people have already left this remote village called Haripur in Amreli District in Gujarat; it now has just 1,000 people. No, the villagers have
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Grasim seeks Kerala's nod to close viscose unit
Aditya Birla group company Grasim Industries Ltd has sought the Kerala Government's permission to close down its viscose unit at Mavoor in Kerala, thereby threatening the jobs of 3,000 employees.
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Greenpeace dubs Mavoor plant as 'slow-motion Bhopal'
Environmental organisation Greenpeace has called upon the Birlas and the Kerala Government to investigate the environmental and health damage created by the Grasim viscose staple fibre factory at
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In Delhi Unviersity lab, they are on way to pathfinding invention
Rarely do breakthroughs happen in the dingy laboratories of Delhi University (DU). But four scientists worked round-the-clock in a two-room DU laboratory with meagre resources and borrowed equipment
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Shadow over a sanctuary
India's best known bird sanctuary, the Keoladeo National Park at Bharatpur, faces an uncertain future. The conflict between the need to protect bio-diversity and the demands of the local communities
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Tribal organisations ready to attend eco project review meet
Tribal organisations are conditionally ready to participate in the eco-development project review meeting likely to be attended by the principal secretary, State Forest and Environment Department.
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Forests bartered away for votes
The race to win votes is having a dangerous impact on India's depleting natural resources which are just "gifted" away during poll time, say conservationists who have drawn up a "green charter" to
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Obesity, diet and exercise
A Worldwatch Paper entitled, "Underfed and Overfed," says that the number of people who are both overnourished and overweight has now reached 1.1 billion worldwide, rivalling the number who are
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Reconstruction of Bhuj alone would cost Rs 6,000 crore
The Gujarat government's preliminary estimates suggest that Bhuj, the district headquarters of Kutch, and the outlaying areas have suffered a minimum loss of Rs 4,000 crore, in terms of
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Govt fears slowdown in anti-HIV drive
The"window of opportunity" to bring the dreaded HIV under control in India would close if the AIDS Control Programme failed to check the increasing prevalence of the disease, a senior health ministry
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US suppliers warned to segregate gene-altered crops
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) in a move that could dent farmer interest in biotechnology, warned its grain suppliers to begin segregating genetically modified crops from conventional crops. The
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Monsanto to enter edible oils market
The bio-tech MNC ginat Monsanto is planning to enter the Indian edible oil market with the country is first branded rice bran oil. This would be its first foray into the domestic food market through
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Angolans eat cats, dogs due to starvation
People are eating cats and dogs in the central Angolan city of Huambo, where food supplies have all but disappeared, missionaries said. "The situation is tragic and unheard of in the history of the
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Forget the tiger, get your map right first
As a punishment to the World Wildlife Fund for publishing maps showing large parts of Jammu & Kashmir in Pakistan and of Arunachal Pradesh in China, the Government has scrapped its ambitious Tiger
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Curl leaf virus poses threat to cotton crop target in Sindh
Sindh's (Pakistan) target of cotton production of 2.2 million bales this year may not be achieved due to curl leaf virus, according to reports reaching Karachi from the interior of the province. It
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Scientist creates smarter mouse
Work on formation of memory may someday help people : In a major test of the brain's most basic mechanism of learning, a scientist has created a smarter strain of mice by manipulating a gene
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Possible deal on clean air in Northeast falls through
In the regional battle over air pollution that blows from the Midwest to the Northeast of U.S. , states on both sides have rejected a proposed compromise, all but guaranteeing that the long-running
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This year's clean up the world programme from Basantpur
With the endorsement of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this year's Clean up the world day is scheduled to be organized all over the world on September 17. In the Kathmandu Valley,
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Synthetic polymers as drug-carriers
In a major breakthrough in pharmacology, the scientists at the Delhi University have developed the smallest synthetic polymer particle that can courier drugs to just the right sites of the body. The