Abortion drug faces a curb
The House has voted 223 to 202, to prohibit the US Food and Drug Administration from using federal money to test, develop or approve any drug that chemically induces
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Single women denied health care
Doctors working in Taliban-held Afghanistan were ordered on Thursday to deny treatment to women not accompanied by a clost male relative, state-run radio Shariat
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Ministry, ICAR draw up action plan to boost agricultural production
The Union agriculture ministry in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has drawn up a detailed action plan for boosting agri production in the current kharif season.
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HIV in infants may go
French researchers say using caesarean-sections during birth coupled with the HIV -fighting drug AZT could nearly eliminate transmission of the AIDS virus from mother to child. Two studies released
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Melghat children die of malnutrition
Drought may lead to starvation deaths in many parts of the country but in the Malghat region--in the picturesque foothills of the Satpuras--it is rain that claims lives. Over 4,000 children from the
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Pollution rising in Kashmir
India's tourist paradise of Kashmir, recovering from a decade of militancy, today faces a new battle on another front--environmental degradation. Air and vehicular pollution levels are rising ,
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Local doctor accused of plagiarism
A claim by a local doctor over an 'AIDS medicine' led to a controversy with some professors in Andhra university here taking credit of inventing the medicine and attributing plagiarism to the doctor.
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High-level probe into gastro deaths demanded
The General Secretary of Asom Sangrami Chah Shramik Sangha (ASCSS), Sri Brij Pradhan today claimed that gastro-enteritis had so far claimed lives of over 400 tea workers in the State and demanded a
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316 sq km forests lost in NE in 2 years
The North-eastern States have lost over 300 sq. km. forest cover since 1995 even as a Supreme Court order banning felling of trees is in vogue in the region. A State Forest report (SFR) compiled by
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PFA website inaugurated
The PEZ, Chennai today joined the global group of activist organisations working for animal welfare and vegetarianism with its website on the Internet.The aims of the PFA, the campaign organised by
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Mining firms in Goa to pay environment tax
Goa's mining companies will have to pay an environment tax soon as the state government has decided to mobilise funds through such a levy for giving compensation to people who suffer damage on
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IBRD praises West Bengal on fishery progress
Two World Bank-aided fisheries projects in West Bengal have earned praise from the international fuding body for good progress . The state has the distinction of being the largest fish producing
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Sheep breeders on the brink of disaster
The Rajasthan Government's apathy to the plight of the wandering tribes of over 2.5 lakh sheep breeders in Western Rajasthan, who are a facing a number of problems ranging from opposition by the
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Use of Three Vaccines Suspended
Health authorities yesterday ordered hospitals and other medical centers across the country to suspend inoculations with three kinds of vaccines following the death of an infant after receiving them.
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Racket over nets alleged
Some Fisheries Department officials have allegedly been allowing fishing for anchovy with seines (heavy weighted fishing nets) in a protected area off Muang District in exchange for bribes. About 50
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Billfish battle heating up
The battle between commercial and sport fishermen in Costa Rica has been long and, often, vicious. However, a recent proposal drafted by Guanacaste sports and commercial fishing interests, as well as
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Dolphin Scheme Protested
Costa Rica's pro-wildlife image is at risk, warn animal protection groups, unless authorities stop a "dolphinarium" being developed as a tourist attraction off its northwestern shores. Involving the
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Steelmakers join to cut energy, waste
Nippon Steel Crop. NKK Corp. and other major steelmakers plan to jointly develop energy saving facilities and work out measures to recycle industrial waste. The steel industry plans to spend $22
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Enviros blast old, coal-fired power plants
"Antiquated power plants are releasing three times as much pollution into the air as they would if they'd been built under current standards," according to a new report by the US PublicInterest
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Senate approves pilot program
In a crucial step in the effort to reform the government'stroubled ship-scrapping program, the Senate passed a bill that sets up a pilot project to test new ways of dismantling obsolete Navy vessels