- Food aid improves rural poor's life
'Food Aid Reduces Poverty' published in Dhaka provided an insight into the specific value of food assistance as a tool to promote people oriented development for improving household food security in
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- A year to save the tiger
When Hong Kong officials locked up huge warehouses stocked with millions of traditional medicines containing tiger and rhino parts in 1993, Judy Mills hoped they would never see the light of the day.
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- Medicine gets Chinese boost
With its close links to China, it may seem paradoxical that Hong Kong has long lagged behind Taiwan, Japan and South Korea in integrating traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) into its healthcare
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- A vitamin shield for the Heart?
A high intake of two B vitamins found in fruits, vegetables and other common foods appears to reduce by nearly half women's risk of suffering a heart attack, a study has shown. The study has also
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GEF will double funds to India
The Global environment Facility (GEF) will more than double its funding to India and will hold its first ministerial-level meeting in New Delhi in April. Disclosing this, GEF's visiting
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- Discrepancies in forest report
That the forest resources of the country have always been under threat is nothing new. So when the Union Minister for Environment and Forests expressed concern about this precious resource touching a
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- They breathe fly ash, drink salty water
They breathe fly ash instead of fresh air. The water they drink is salty. Their eyes have turned yellow, the skin is inflamed and bleeding with rashes. In short, life is a virtual hell for the
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Malays find rare monkey
A pack of 48 stump-tailed monkeys long thought to be extinct in Malaysia has been spotted near the Malaysian-thai border recently, a newspaper reported on
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- New lease of life for weak foetus
The role colour Doppler echocardiography in treating heart diseases of unborn babies (foetus) was highlighted by the doctors attending the concluding day of the World Conference on Cardiology
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- Centre offers 50% subsidy for sewage treatment plants
The government will consider providing 50 per cent capital subsidy to states for existing as well as new sewage treatment plants. States have been asked to incorporate energy recovery component for
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- Plan to resettle leprosy patients
The Biotechnology Department that funded the development of the anti-leprosy vaccine is backing up its use with distribution of technologies for providing gainful employment to post-leprosy and
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- Green issues in elections
It is high time MPs paid attention to conserving resources and enhancing them for future generations. Mainly two members, basically from the forest and coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and
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- Isro invites global bids for GSLV launch pad
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has invited global tenders for the construction of its first geostationary launcher-class launch pad at Sriharikota island, 70 km from Chennai.The launch
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- Trees and the law
The use and abuse of the environment is a complex matter, especially in the vast but fragile Amazon rainforest. Logging, mining and large scale agriculture have been important sources of jobs and
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- Cotton production estimates shrink to 164 lakh bales on untimely rains
With unseasonal rains in December affecting crops in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, cotton production has been downscaled to 164 lakh bales this season (October-September) , a United States
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- Novel protest by farmers
It is different sort of campaign im Khairanwali village of the Darba Kalan assembly segment in Sirsa parliamentary constituency. Farmers of at least 40 villagers in groups of 12 each go about in
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- Growing bush pepper on rooftops
The Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR) and the Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development (STED) Project here have joined hands to take pepper to new heights - to the rooftops of
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- Rs 17.58 cr sanctioned for 2 eco projects
The India-Canada Environment Facility has approved Rs 17.58 crore for two environment projects. Rs 14.38 crore has been sanctioned to Manipur's Loktak Development Authority and Wetlands
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- Camp conducts hepatitis -B checks
Nearly 800 people, including infants, were administered the hepatitis-B vaccination at a free liver and hepatitis -B camp, the third of its type at Noida on sunday.
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- EC backs farming support measures
The European Commission backed proposals to keep agricultural support prices largely unchanged and to implement a slight reduction in the Common Agricultural Policy budget for 1998-99 to