Deadly slip up
An adulterated cooking medium sparks off panic in India, but the government remains clueless on how to deal with the crisis
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Making space for emissions
What does the ubiquitous auto rickshaw and the plush aeroplane have in common, other than getting us from one place to another? The auto rickshaw, as India s largest manufacturer Rahul Bajaj will
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Oil spoils
That, too, for very long
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Mystique of metal therapy
Incredible though it may seem, it is being claimed that cancer and multiple sclerosis, the two deadly diseases that have often eluded cure, can be successfully treated with Rasayan Shastra or metal therapy. But to the practitioner of modem medicihe,
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Cadavers in the water
The thousands of corpses of the brutal gun and machete civil war in Rwanda have been dumped into the second largest fresh water lake in the world.
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Cure sans fear
Hormone replacement therapy has become safer than before
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Theory banged
Big Bang,the widely accepted theory an cosmological observations, is in for trouble
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Under siege
India, seen as a dumpyard by the developed countries for toxic wastes, is under pressure not to ratify the Basel Ban
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Ouch, it is a mutation
Do headaches, stomach upsets and several other minor ailments have their roots in the speed of genetic mutations?
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Russia's nightmare
Thousands of chemical weapons, once abandoned by the military, are coming back to haunt Russia
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The cost of gene info
A debate rages in England over the possibility aind scope of insuring genetic information
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Gatt's new avatar is a demon
An extraordinary session of the US Congress meets in December to approve the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade amidst fears that its new incarnation will undermine US sovereignty.
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Rising green heat
Scientists have discovered a new greenhouse gas, which is thousands of times more effective in trapping heat as compared to carbon dioxide
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Glaxo pulls out anti malaria drugs
pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is recalling its malaria drug Lapdap and has discontinued development of another malaria drug, Dacart, saying the drugs can lead to anaemia in some patients.
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A head for figures
Scientists find two different ways the brain does maths. This could be a boon for children who do not learn maths in their mother tongue
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Going to town with agriculture
Helped by a proactive government, residents of Havana resort to urban agriculture to solve their food crisis
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Canine calamity
REELING under economic hardships, people of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Are afflicted these days with a new problem - an army of 10,000 stray dogs infected with rabies. The authorities have
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INDIA
• The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has constituted a committee to montor the implementation of the rules of hazardous waste management. M G K Menon, former minister for science and
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Seeding the seas?
Sprinkling powdered iron into the ocean may help reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide
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Vultures on death row
Human persecution is the main cause behind the high mortality of vultures in India