Argemone traces detected again
Argemone has been detected in another samples of mustard oil lifted by the Prevention of Food Adulteration Department. The Delhi Health Minister, Dr A K Walia, today cautioned people against
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Seed satyagraha from today
Following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March to protest against unjust British laws on salt, activists will launch a beej yatra(seed march) on Friday to draw attention to World Trade
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Tigers in India face a tough battle for survival
The Vice-President, Mr Krishan Kant, today cited encroachment on tiger habitats by humans as the most serious challenge to their survival and called for a multi-pronged strategy to resolve the issue.
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Plan to increase fruit area
The Himachal Pradesh Government has chalked out an ambitious programme to make this well-known "apple state " a fruit bowl of the country through diversifying into horticulture in a big way. The aim
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CM for promoting traditional medicines
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has said that expensive modern treatment facility is no longer affordable for common man. The best way is to promote Ayurvedic and other traditional
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Huge cache of firewood, timber seized
The employees of Bagra forest reserve in Madhya Pradesh seized a large amount of firewood and timber from a nala in the forest close to the brick kiln factories located in village Jhalon. The wood
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Air Pollution turns Sukinda into a death trap
Rising temperature of water and high air pollution is turning Orissa's Sukinda valley-- the largest concentration of chrome ore deposits in Asia -- into a death trap, according to noted
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Waning public interest in AIDS worries health officials
Public AIDS information centers around Japan have noticed a drastic drop in the number of visitors, say workers at the centers. And the number of HIV tests people have requested, a barometer of the
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Alleged gas leak
11 hospitalised: Eleven persons - nine All India Radio(AIR) personnel and two women constables - were admitted to the government Medical College hospital here this morning when they complained of
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Germs at root of chronic diseases
From gallstones to arthritis to heart disease, many illnesses long presumed to have roots in genes or lifestyle may be caused largely by infectious agents, a growing number of scientists believe.
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Budget neglect peeves green officials
Environment officials are extremely upset over the allocation made by finace minister Yashwant Sinha for the ministry in this year's budget. In real terms, taking inflation into account, the
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Membership of coastal zone body
The Supreme Court yesterday asked the Ministry of environment to explain why the National Coastal Zone Management Authority, set up in November last year, consisted of too many members from
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Plan to detect groups prone to AIDS virus
A baseline survey would be conducted to identify high risk groups for AIDS in the city. Already 119 of 260 AIDS patients have already died. The survey would help the government to combat the menace
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Pirate fishing vessel revealed
Greenpeace revealed that it now believes the pirate shipping vessel on the run from the MV Arctic Sunrise in the Southern Ocean is the same vessel found guilty of fishing illegally last October by
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A move to limit use in animal feed
Faced with mounting evidence that the routine use of antibiotics in livestock may diminish the drugs' power to cure infections in people, the Food and Drug Administration in U.S. has begun a major
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Middle-class consumerism takes heavy toll of planet Earth
Making a car takes about as much energy as driving it 21,000 kms. Some 700 different materials - half of them hazardous - go into making a computer. Producing a US cheeseburger requires more than
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Panel to check illegal kidney sale
Kidney donors will now have to seek permission of the Divisional Commissioners. The Uttar Pradesh government set up a committee to check illegal sale of kidneys. The government was embarassed in the
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Drilling holes to bypass heart
Blasting away with a laser threaded into heart, doctors in US say they can relieve crippling chest pain by drilling tiny holes into the walls of the heart's main pumping chamber. The experimental new
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800 sago units in TN threaten to close down
Nearly 800 sago and starch factories in Tamil Nadu are threatening to close down in a bid to pressurise the Tamil Nadu Government to intervene and prevent the State Pollution Control Board(SPCB) from
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A controversy over a killer pachyderm
The Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary in the Nilgris, has remained closed for the past one year, due to the activities of the sandalwood smuggler Veerappan. But a killer "makhna"(tuskless male) elephant