Aviary birds fall prey to heat
The intense heat wave is taking its toll of birds at the aviary adjacent to the zoo in the city of Rajkot with 70 foreign birds dying in recent days.
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Pakistan meets US conditions for shrimp export
Pakistan is among those countries which meet the US sea turtle conservation programme, requiring commercial shrimp boats to use sea turtle excluder devices (TEDs) to prevent the accidental drowning
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Mining deep underground stirs protest above
People in these pristine hills speak of "the longwall" digging endlessly 500 feet and more beneath them, a prodigious coal mining machine that has been extracting the lucrative Pittsburgh seam for 30
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Pig cells injected into man's spine
Fetal pig cells were injected into the spine of a 50-year old quadriplegic man in an experimental procedure that hospital officials say was the first of its kind. It if works, the cells will grow as
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Forest dept to prepare poachers list
Madhya Pradesh forest department will prepare a list of poachers engaged in criminal offences involving wild animals like the list of history sheeters prepared by the police department.
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Cut in rural development plan funds irks Rajasthan
The Rajasthan government has flayed the Centre for reducing allocations under rural development schemes. Rajasthan relief minister Gulab Singh Shaktawat criticised the central government for cutting
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NAFTA's environmental threat proved
A decision by the B.C. Supreme court this week proves a contentious NAFTA clause is a threat to the environment, NDP Leader Alexa McDonough said Friday. McDonough called Chapter 11 of NAFTA an
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Green lungs at Bhagat
As much as 2,166 acres of Bhagat Mine land will be developed as forest area which will act as green lungs for the citizens of Delhi. This was stated by the Delhi Environment and Forest Minister, Dr.
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Top court upholds ruling on exhibition of circus animals
The Supreme Court on May 1, 2001, upheld a Kerala high court judgment that prohibits circus owners from training or using five species of animals. This landmark judgment makes it illegal for
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Pyres, mass graves spark foot-and-mouth fears
Britain's chief scientist admitted on Wednesday that he could not be sure that funeral pyres being used to burn thousands of foot-and-mouth infected livestock were not spreading the disease.
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60 pc under-5 children suffer from malnutrition
At least 60 percent under-five children in Bangladesh are suffering from medium to fatal malnutrition which is causing death to two-third of them, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Sheikh Fazlul
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Emirates to introduce total no-smoking policy
Emirates, the international airline of the UAE, will introduce a total no-smoking policy on all flights, starting August 1 this
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Lethal bug probably in Ontario: officials
Public health officials say it's very likely potentially fatal West Nile virus has made its way into Ontario. As a result, public health officials are gearing up for a long battle against the virus
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Blair claims Britain winning battle against foot-n-mouth
Prime Minister Tony Blair declard that the last funeral pyre for animal carcasses was to be lit on Thursday as the battle to stamp out Britain;s foot-and-mouth epidemic appeared to be won.
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Blair claims victory in foot-and-mouth fight
Britain has destroyed the carcasses of nearly all the animals slaughtered in the foot-and-mouth epidemic, and the government believes it has the upper hand on the disease, news report said on
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Bottled water no better than from tap: study
Despite perceptions that it's healthier, there is little difference between bottled water and tap water - apart from cost - a conservation group said today."Bottled water may be no safer, or
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Sask. deaths linked to water
The deaths of three people may be linked to a parasitic outbreak that has caused at least 20 people to fall ill in west-central Saskatchewan. "Two of the suspicous deaths, one in early April, one in
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Race bias in stroke treatment found
Whites are five times more likely than blacks to receive emergency clot-busting treatment for stroke, researchers found. Only 1.1 percent of blacks received the drug TPA in a study of US's top
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WHO calls shots on anti-leprosy vaccine
The anti-leprosy vaccine developed by the National Institute of Immunology (NII) after 25 years of research, and at a cost of Rs 8 crore, has been dismissed as a wasted effort by the health ministry
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Centre pays, but Bihar fails to treat cattle
The state government has failed to utilise a Rs 10 lakh central grant for purchasing vaccine to protect cattle against the foot and mouth disease (FMD) for three years in row. FMD, which generally