Of marriages made in heaven
The Capital is soon going to have its first marriage bureau for AIDS patients. AIDS-India, a registered society of doctors, social counsellors and HIV patients, will run the bureau. This is the first
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IBRD suspends funds for TB control project
The World Bank has suspended the release of funds for the Tuberculosis Control Project, as the Minsitry of Health and Family Welfare has not firmed up a mechanism for procurement of drugs. Expressing
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Global campaign against Monsanto planned
A worldwide campaign will be launched against the agro-chemical major Monsanto, in February 1999, said Dr. Vandana Shiva, noted environmental activist at a press briefing. The sentiment against the
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Citizen launches eco-watches
Japanese watch major, Citizen, launched a range of watches for the Indian market, including its light powered watch eco-drive and its citizen quartz range. The quartz range of watches comprise over
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SC accepts Noida resident's plea for sewerage upgradation
The Supreme Court, upholding the Noida residents plea about effluents and sewerage system has issued directions for upgradation of sewerage management system in East Delhi areas and in some of the
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Gujarat Infocity may uproot 40,000 trees
The Infocity the Gujarat government is planning to set up on the sprawling 200 acres of the government land near Gandhinagar may lead to the felling of about 40,000 trees. Though the government is
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Shantha Biotech to launch cancer drug
Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd, the Hyderabad based pharmaceutical company known for developing the country's first indigenously developed Hepatitis-B vaccine, is all set to launch its second drug,
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Bank guarantees for pollution check devices
Industrial units of Punjab will have to submit bank guarantees for the installation and operation of pollution control devices. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the State Pollution
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Wild elephants damage houses, crops near Sonari
At least 500 people of Naphuk tea estate, Kherbari, Ianakipather under Sonari police station are forced to take shelter at Naphuk Labour Club and LP School every night, following the damage caused to
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Moratorium on individual fishing quotas should be lifted
To help curb overfishing and protect the economic viability of the fishing industry, Congress should lift the ban on allocating exclusive fishing privileges to individuals in U.S. fisheries and give
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Mesoamerican Corridor gets green light
The green light was given last month in Paris to an ambitious program to unite the whole of Central America and Mexico's southern states under a single Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, protecting
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State to promote soybean product consumption
After a three-year experiment to improve children's health through drinking soybean milk, China is continuing to improve its soybean cultivation and consumption. The commanding office for the State
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Birds return to Daming Lake
Flocks and flocks of migratory birds returned to their seasonal home at Daming Lake in Jinan, the capital of East China's Shandong Province. They are now flying south from the cold north to the south
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Open zoo planned in industrial estate
Vikrom Kromadit, chief executive officer of the Amata Group which owns Bang Pakong Industrial Park II (Thailand), has probably learned that looking for joint investors to develop an industrial estate
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Infanticide cases on rise in TN
About 1,330 cases of female infanticide have been reported from several parts of Tamil Nadu last year, State Information and Publicity Miniter V Mullaivendan has said. Dharmapuri, one of 54 districts
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Uk baby creates medical history
A five-week-old baby was in a satisfactory condition on Saturday after making medical history as the youngest patient in Britain to have a rare double heart valve
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A commoner's death
As two lions die of a rabies-like disease, concerns of an epidemic worry wildlife officials in Gir, Gujarat. But disease apart, the human to wildlife ratio, encroaching quarries and growing tourists
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US considering ban on UK blood
Federal advisers said on Friday the US government should consider barring blood donations from people who lived in or visited Britain because of concerns about mad cow disease. The worry is that
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Delhi will go to courts against hospital services
The Delhi governemnt will approach the consumer protection courts against the "unsatisfactory services" rendered by various government hospitals having medical equipment and machines which did not
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Tisco cement plant Tata's response to pollution problem
The idea of the Tata Steel cement division first came up as the Tata group's considered managerial response to the high pollution perptrated in Jamshedpur, Bihar, by generation of blast furnace slag