High-input tech kills agriculture
Even as the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns continue to be stacked to the ceiling and New Delhi remains directionless as regards food management, down South, in Palakkad, once Kerala's 'rice
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Cholesterol breakthrough
Israeli scientists say cream and butter lovers can now eat guilt-free thanks to a chemical process that removes cholesterol from the body. Professor Nissim Garti has designed what he calls tiny
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Tiger park prey on city deer
In one of the biggest planned shifting of animals, about 100 deer from Jawahar Lake Deer Park in Shameerpet situated in Andhra Pradesh is being relocated to the Nagarjuna Sagar Sriailam Tiger Reserve
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Cloud of smoke over Zyban
Can an antismoking drug be injurious to health? Pharma giant GlaxoSmithkline (GSK), under fire regarding its smoking cessation drug. Zyban, has risen in defense of its non-nicotine oral drug - in the
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Fortis moves to set up more hospitals
Fortis Healthcare Ltd, promoted by the Ranbaxy-family, is poised to embark on its plans to set up two tertiary-level hospitals in the ortho-neuro and cardiac or neuro specialities. The development is
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Pollution: what we can do
One shudders to think that even while pollution levels are much beyond safe limits at busy traffics intersections, traffic continues to flow on as if this is of no consequence. Air is a natural
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Slum board to focus on health issues
The efforts taken by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board on conducting speciality camps in the slum areas were outlined at a meeting held by the
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CMs meet to discuss disaster mitigation draft
The Chief Ministers of all States will meet in New Delhi in March to discuss the draft plan on disaster mitigation prepared by a team of experts in various fields, the former Defense Minister, Mr.
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To improve health and boost economic development, countries strive for better food safety
The first ever Global Forum of Food Safety Regulators opened, seeking ways to improve the safety of food worldwide at every step of the food production chain - from farmers, through processors and
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Floods kill 13 in Jakarta
Hours of torrential rain on Wednesday caused widespread flooding in Indonesia's capital, paralysing large parts of the city and forcing thousands to flee their homes. At least 13 people have been
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Ambattur sewerage project to begin in two months
Works on the Rs. 39.6 crore underground sewerage project of the Ambattur Municipality in Tamil Nadu is likely to begin in two months, its chairman, K. Rutmangathan,
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New test for white spot shrimp virus
A new testing procedure to detect white spot virus in shrimp culture has been developed by a team of scientists attached to the College of Fisheries here. The hybridoma technology-based immuno-dot
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Pollution, logging are mountain ravagers
Wars, pollution and logging are despoiling the world's mountain ranges with the European Alps, the Rockies in North America and the Hindukush in Asia the most threatened by one or more of these
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Taming that weed
Water hyacinth is thought to be an environmental hazard, affecting agriculture, fisheries drainage, irrigation and ever water sports. But scientists and researchers have been ld to conclude that this
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The earth beneath us is still shaking
It's exactly one year since the killer quake shook Gujarat and the earth beneath is still shaking. In the past one year, Gujarat recorded around 1260 jolts of intensity more than three on the Richter
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A Year After
It is a year since the terrible Kutch earthquake took 30,000 lives and caused a loss of some Rs. 13,000 crores through destruction of private and public economic assets. As it always is in India, the
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Rising from rubble
On January 26, last year, the earth convulsed violently in Gujarat, killing 20,000 people, destroying 1.2 million homes, flattening 11,600 schools, 1.200 health care centres and hospitals besides
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Extinction rate reaches historical proportions
Half of all living bird and mammal species will be gone within 200 or 300 years, according to a botany professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Although the extinction of various species is a
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USFWS revisits decision on rock creek mine
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has asked a federal court to delay a lawsuit challenging its evaluation of the Rock Creek Mine while the agency reconsiders its analysis
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Wetland waste: HC seeks report
Allahabad High Court has admitted a petition seeking to stop the Uttar Pradesh government from draining the wetlands in Etawah and Mainpuri, home to the world's largest concentration of sarus cranes.