Long droughts could lead to the US
American mega-droughts over decades and dwarfing even the 1930s' 'Dust Bowl" could again wreck the nation's Great Plains agricultural" bread basket" next century, US scientists warned. Paleoclimatic
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Nature camp at Namdapha
The CEE North East in collaboration with Project Tiger Nampdampa, department of Forests, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam Science Society, Panitola branch organized a nature orientation camp from December
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The smoking barrel of tobacco censorship in South Africa
An investigation by Panos Features shows that some South African journalists are finding it difficult to get newspapers to publish reports that are supportive of a controversial new Bill banning
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Cut the wrong leg
At many US hospitals, doctors use the pen before the scalpel to avoid wrong-site surgery. From 1985 to 1995 the US Physicians Insurers Association counted 225 claims from wrong-site surgery by
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Vision award for family planning body
Family Planning Association of India has bagged the "International Vision 2000" award of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, a leading family planning organisation, for its "Small Family
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Apollo starts free medicare for poor
The Indraprasth Apollo Hospital, Delhi, has finally started providing free beds to poor patients. The hospital claims that the free treatment meted out to patients includes a free bed, diet, doctors'
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Govt to go ahead with changes in Foreign Trade Act
The Union governmetn is going ahead with amendment to the Foreign TRade (Development and Regulation) Act 1992 for incorporating provision of quantitative import restrictions in line with the WTO
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North-South initiative sparks distant hopes for AIDS vaccine
Research groups from Kenya, South Africa, the US and Britain have been given the go-ahead to jointly develop two HIV/AIDS vaccines designed specifically for developing countries. Trials are set to
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HC seeks govt stance on fresh anti-quackery Bill
The Delhi High Court asked the Delhi Government whether it proposed to take up a fresh bill to check quackery before the Delhi Assembly, since the earlier one - the Delhi Quackery Prohibition Bill,
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Amgen gets boost from court ruling
The surprise verdict by a Chicago arbitration panel giving Amgen Inc. sole rights to a promising new drug is good news for the biotechnology company. The panel ruled that a next-generation anemia
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Toy story
Christmas 1998's scare comes courtesy of the environmentalist movement. Earlier this year, Greenpeace activists raided a Hong Kong outlet of the Toys "R" Us chain, pulling baby toys from the shelves.
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Leopard census from Jan 5
The six-day-long tiger and leopard census, 1999, will be held in Orissa's Simlipal tiger reserve forest from January 5. According to official sources here, altogetehr 53 census units would cover the
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23 children rescued from Nepal carpet factory
The police rescued 23 children and young adults in a raid on a carpet-weaving factory at Kathmandu after two youths escaped from a 30-month ordeal to raise the alarm, an English daily reported on
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Your French wine may just have pesticides
The lowly wine cork may have been unfairly blamed for the poor taste of some wines produced in France's Bordeaux region over the past decade, this was reported by two French magazines on Sunday. The
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City's environment resembles Nazi gas chambers
To damn with your black lungs, your air thick with pernicious pollutants, your child born with asthma. The city was in the grip of a maniac swadeshi politics and nepotic rulers, as pollution bgan to
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Airlines tiptoe in with muffled fleets
Airplane noise has gotten a lot softer, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and a 10 year program with that in mind is approaching a pianissimo finale. But some airlines will face a
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Decision on ramaining gas-hit wards soon
ADvani : The Union Home Minister L K Advani recently assured a delegation of BJP leaders from Bhopal that the decision on declaring remaining wards of Bhopal as gas-hit would be taken soon.
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Project to develop combination medications in TN
Shantimalai Trust, the non-governmental organisation working for the development of the villages in the vicinity of the Arunachala hill in Thiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu, is in the process
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Forest fires in J&K
Forest fires have been reported across Jammu and Kashmir, some of them apparently sparked by the cross border shelling. While the initial reports of forest fires were received from the outskirts of
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Call to put antelope on endangered list
Environmentalists plan to urge the US government to add an antelope, found only in the remote Himalayan high plains of China and Tibet, to its endangered species list so as to help stop the global