The states spring a surprise
For weeks during the spring, US Congress wrangled over a tobacco bill that would have forced the industry to pay billions towards the cost of treating sick smokers. At first the bill demanded $368.5
News
-
-
To catch a whale
Earlier this year, the Makahs-a tribe of about 2,000 people living in the north-west corner of Washington state-won permission from the International Whaling Commission to kill five migrating grey
-
Gene maps give clues to cell regulation
Newly published research into how cells avoid disease could lead to better drugs and diagnostic tests, according to US scientists. Writing in the journal Cell, a team of Massachusetts scientists say
-
Environment ministry does 'listen'
The Union ministry of environment and forests has shown in the last nine months that it is responsive to people's needs . In his short tenure, environment minister Suresh Prabhu has sent the message
-
'An aspirin a day can keep diabetes away'
An aspirin a day can keep diabetes away, say doctors. According to diabetes expert and president of the Delhi branch of the Diabetic Association of India, S S Rastogi," A small dose of aspirin for
-
Financial trawling
An emerging market in fish quotas is making some fishermen very rich and helping to solve the problem of over-capacity in the industry : a
-
Smog alert system for Capital on anvil
Union Environment and Forests Minister Suresh Prabhu has asked the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to develop an alert system for Delhi smog in winters The CPCB will also have to investigate
-
Vietnam storm toll is now 203
Two severe tropical storms that battered central Vietnam this month killed 203 people, the country's disaster management unit reported late on
-
Kashmir saffron loses flavour
Notwithstanding a bumper crop this season, the world famous Kashmir saffron is losing its flavour because of a stiff competition from "inferior" Iranian produce, fake variety and official
-
Capital's drug project a major success
The success of the Essential Drugs programme, implemented in government hospitals in the Capital, has prompted some of the neighbouring countries to adopt the similar models. The programme has
-
Karnataka farmers threaten to up root Monsanto trials
Even as Monsanto Enterprises, the multinational food and bio-tech giant tried to clarify that it was in no way involved with 'Terminator Gene', The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) threatened to
-
Gujarat Gas hits back against Surat pollution charges
The Gujarat Gas Company Ltd (GGCL) of British Gas Plc has lodged a strong protest against the move by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to nail the company holding it responsible as the
-
US promises end to dispute over Indian shrimp export
The United States has promised to end within 15 months any discrimination meted out to shrimp exporters from India and three other countries. Deputy US trade representative (USTR) Rita Hayes said the
-
Chilgoza pines face extinction
Man's greed and apathy , hostile soil conditions and insect attacks have over the years, been slowly but inexorably pushing pinus gerardiana, commonly called chilgoza or neoza pine, towards
-
Seminar on magnetic therapy
A seminar on "A new medicine for the third millennium, " will be in Kochi on November 29. Three unique systems, based on the traditional natural curing methods - physio-motion therapy, swasthya
-
Umbilical-cord blood for bone marrow
Key cells extracted from umbilical-cord blood can help restore bone marrow destroyed by illness and pose a low risk of being rejected, even when the blood doesn't perfectly match the patient's, a new
-
3,000 Bhopal gas victims to take out rally on Nov. 30
More than 3,000 survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy, will mark the 14th anniversary of the disaster with a massive rally here on November 30, apart from launching a fact-finding mission set up at the
-
Rains to hit coastal zone
Sunday's low pressure area formed over west central Bay of Bengal off coastal Andhra Pradesh now lies as a well-marked low presure area, the Cyclone Warning Centre said in a special bulletin on
-
Epidemic threat to 200,000
An estimated 200,000 flood victims still living on dykes are at risk from epidemics and the approaching winter, aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said yesterday. "As winter sets in, tens of
-
Six farmers commit 'suicide' as cotton crop fails again
Six cotton growers of Madhya Pradesh, five of them from the Vidarbha region, allegedly committed suicide last week following widespread damage to the cotton crop due to unseasonal rain and their