First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Rs 400 cr. for health services
While the Haryana Government has earmarked Rs 400 crores for promotion of health services this fiscal, the Central Government has earmarked Rs 15 crores up to September 2004 for the sector investment
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Bush launches $15-b. plan to combat AIDS in Africa
Citing " a moral duty to act' against the spread of AIDS, the U.S. President George W> Bush today launched a 15-billion-dollar emergency plan to fight the disease in Africa and the
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Increase in cough, cold and fever in city raises concern
Increasing number of patients, children and adults, queue up outside the clinics and hospitals in Chennai with symptoms of severe throat pain, cold and fever that extends for a period little more
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Fluorosis-hit people seek safe drinking water
Deadly fluorosis has deprived a large section of population in Karbi Anglong of their childhood and youth. Drinking water in many parts of Karbi Anglong hill district particularly in Tekalangjun,
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Beijing imposes new fines for hindering SARS drive
Authorities aiming to wipe out SARS in Beijing say they will fine people who evade health checkpoints or illegally enter quarantine areas. There has been a sharp drop in the numbers of new cases in
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Cadila to file seven drug master files with US FDA
Cadila Pharmaceuticals (CPL) has decided to strengthen its international operations and is planning to file seven more drug master files (DMFs) with US FDA for selling its active pharmaceutical
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Quit tobacco drive
The Delhi Traffic police would launch "Quit Tobacco and Respiratory Care" drive for the traffic police personnel on the occasion of "World No Tobacco Day" on May
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Unethical population control methods have State backing
Over 5,000 unnecessary deaths of women across the country every year due to septic abortions and ill-performed sterlisation operations amount to a flagrant violation of human rights in reproductive
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Religious leaders support polio eradication drive
Strongly supporting the polio-eradication drive, local heads of various religious today called upon the people to cooperative in making the campaign agains the crippling disease a success and
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Bush set on taking lead role in debate on Aids
President George W. Bush will leave for Europe at the end of the week intent on leading the debate on Aids in Africa, reinforced by a $15bn US commitment to fight the disease. At an elaborate