- Census Dept calls data users' meet for its millennial head count
With India's population fast reaching the 10-billion mark, the Census Department is gearing up for its millennial headcount, with a data users' conference in New Delhi scheduled for April. Deputy Director of Census Operations V. Venkateswaran said that when the 2001 Census is released, the official history of the Indian …
- UK Opposition fails to revoke ban on beef sale
British Opposition parties on Tuesday failed to overturn the controversial ban on the sale of beef , ordered in December as a safety precaution against the spread of mad cow disease. The House of Commons rejected a motion by the minority Liberal Democrats by 312 votes to 196 votes late …
- Centre will reimburse states for providing AIDS treatment
The Union government has decided to reimburse states for all treatment of those with post-AIDS infections, provide money for encouraging private investment in AIDS care and to have facilities for AIDS-testing and counselling in all state -run-medical colleges. The board of management of the Nationsl AIDS Control Organisation , chaired …
- Probe ordered
The Union Health Secretary, Mr K B Saxena, today ordered an inquiry into the blood selling incident at the Indian Red Cross Society.
- 'Sagar Kanya' to study aerosol effect
As part of the International Year of the Ocean (IYO), which is being observed this year, the Department of Ocean Development (DOD) has proposed to deploy its research vessel, ORV Sagar Kanya, for a study of the characteristics of the aerosol over the oceanic regions and their optical effects.During the …
- Sonia wave calms Cauvery currents
The Congress in Karnataka scored a shrewd point over the ruling Janata Dal on Tuesday by getting Mrs Sonia Gandhi to offer a goodwill solution to the Cauvery river dispute between the state and Tamil Nadu in hotbed river basin constituency of Mandya.
- Vaccine against deadly E.Coli bacteria tested
A vaccine against E. Coli, the deadly food poisoning bacteria that forced the recall last year of millions of pounds of US beef, has been tested successfully on a small group of volunteers, researchers said on Monday.Scientists at the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the …
- NGO plea to block CM phone in protests
A leading NGO has appealed to Delhities to call up chief minister Sahib Singh Verma on Friday to register their protest against his government's reported decision to scrap the ban on commercial vehicles older than 15 years. Calling for the novel "jam-their-phone lines to be heard" campaign, the Centre for …
- Malaria epidemic hits Kenya
A malaria epidemic has killed 354 people in two western Kenya districts in the last two weeks, health officials said.
- Antibiotics 'aid food poisoning'
Intensive livestock production and excessive use of antibiotics have contributed to a rise in food poisoning, the Meat and Livestock Commission of UK said.
Kidney drug recalled
Fear of mad cow disease has sparked a national and worldwide recall of a kidney transplant medication. A total of 62,284 phials of Atgam, a sterile solution used to treat recipients of transplanted kidneys, were produced using the blood cells of a donor who had Creutzeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
- WB's healthcare policy draws flak
The World Bank has been criticised for its neglect of population and reproductive health concerns with a $500-million budget for the purpose. A report--"Falling Short" -- released by Population Action International (PAI), a US-based population policy research NGO has questioned the role of the bank given its importance in influencing …
- Shock wave sheds new light on fading supernova
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a ringside seat to a never before seen titanic collision of an onrushing stellar shock wave with an eerie glowing gas ring encircling a nearby stellar explosion, called supernova 1987A.
- Opponents set to chew up pan masala industry
The multi-crore pan masala industry, which has grown by leaps and bounds in the last one decade in India, is in a crisis following a nation-wide campaign against the use of such products.The campaign, which initially began two years ago in Maharashtra, is fast spreading to states like Karnataka and …
- US pollution control device awaits nod
A general Motors-patented pollution control and fuel-saving device has been awaiting testing for over a year now at the Petroleum Conservation Research Association, a premier agency whose primary objective is to evaluate fuel-saving devices.
World Bank offers aid to Bangladesh
Finance from the World Bank to help the Bangladesh Government tackle the menace of arsenic poisoning is under way and a programme is expected to be finalised by mid-1998, according to the Country Chief of the World Bank here, Mr. Pierre Lendis Mills.
- Idu Ondu Ole
Scientists at the centre for the Application of Science and Technology to Rural Areas (ASTRA), IISc., have developed fuel efficient stoves and furnaces that use wood and other biomass without causing further deforestation.
- Raising the green curtain
When Dr. Peter H. Raven, scientific advisor to US President Bill Clinton inaugurates a conference on medicinal plants in Bangalore on 16-19 Feb '98, the increasingly vulnerable arena of green medicine will be given much needed global attention. The theme of the meeting is "Medicinal Plants for Survival."
- Plan to resettle leprosy patients
The Biotechnology Department that funded the development of the anti-leprosy vaccine is backing up its use with distribution of technologies for providing gainful employment to post-leprosy and leprosy patients.Department secretary Dr Manju Sharma told that biofertiliser and medicinal plant cultivation were the two identified technologies that were being transferred to …
