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SIDE-EFFECTS: The France-based Roche Holding AC, has planned to withdraw its drug for high blood pressure, Posicor, as its interaction with other medicines is poor. Long term clinical trials have
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Andhra uranium mining project gives locals short shrift
widespread resistance to a new uranium mine and processing plant in his long-time Pulivendula assembly constituency in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh has come as a shock to chief minister Y S
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Big tobacco comes under the hammer
A Miami jury slams unprecedented punitive damages on tobacco companies, who will appeal the verdict
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Dead end?
Or are there creative alternatives?
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More arsenic
Exactly how widespread is the presence of poisonous arsenic in the groundwater that Indians drink? In Delhi, a doctor s phone call propels <i>Down To Earth</i> to visit Uttar Pradesh s Ballia district. 950 kilometres away from the country s capital, we fo
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India not on course for clean air target
Diesel cars are expected to corner 50 per cent of the Indian car market by 2010. 2010 is also the Indian government's target year for putting into place European emission standards. The target
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Manipulating research
Research is often like an iceberg. The public interest can just be the visible tip with the invisible bulk being the private interest
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Heat and dust
Dust aggravates drought in Africa
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I drink cola, therefore I am?
Cola Companies It was the year 1960. As the Democrat J F Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon contested for us presidency, the Democrats came out with a poster of Nixon, with the phrase, "Would
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Doha can still be a success
<p>Very different global rules are needed for human wellbeing</p> <p>Averting climate change does not need emission reduction pledges, timetables and a common legal framework.</p> <p>Climate governance
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Decentralised renewable energy is the solution to India’s energy poverty
<p><strong>Union minister for new and renewable energy, Farooq Abdullah, releases CSE’s Citizen’s Report on State of Renewable Energy</strong></p> <p><strong>In 2012-13, electricity produced
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In trouble again
Supreme Court issues notices against closure of final tunnels of Tehri dam; conditions unfulfilled
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Heart to heart
A tongue in cheek report of a conversation overheard at a bar during a meeting of the Commission for Sustainable Development.
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A tryst winth death
The land of the Brahmaputra recurrently reels under terrible onslaughts of a scourge
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Flight to fame
A joint consortium by 3 Asian nations to build a passenger aircraft may shake the Western stranglehold
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TOXIC TRAIL
A small area in northern Vadodara is cluttered with nearly 200 industries, most of them dealing in chemicals. This has created serious environmental problems. The water is unfit for drinking, the air full of toxins, and the once-rich farmland surrounding
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Can the Grim Reaper wait, please?
A timeless dream: eternal youth, unblemished by illness. The search for the font of immortality has taken a late 20th century turn into what seems like fantasy science. The basis of this search is the belief that if death cannot be staved off forever, hum
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Panacea?
Vitamin E gives protection against heart disease and slows the ageing process, among other benefits
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Trading charges
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