The Hyderabad-based Shantha Biotechnics Private Limited (SBPL) has threatened to take drug ginat SmithKline Beecham (SB) to court for indulging in a 'smear campaign' against its new hepatitis
A British environment team will be visiting the city on February 5 and 6. The mission aims to evaluate factors in the Indian economy affecting environmental changes and their relationship to
The ancient ginkgo tree, native to China, may hold some of the secrets to reducing the signs of ageing, if not to eternal youth. The ginkgo is thought to contain chemical catalysts called
UNDP's Crisis Committee has allocated $720,000 to establish a national disaster management authority in Mozambique, and $197,000 for a disaster management training in
Although the initiatives of the World Bank on family planning and reproductive health programmes in India are commendable, much needs to be done to improve the situation as a whole, an international
Wastes are not completely worthless if one goes by the claims of scientists at the international conference on 'Fly Ash Disposal & Utilisation ' held in New Delhi recently. They said fly ash, an
At least 108 patients have been injected with a medical reagent possibly contaminated by the protein which causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)- the human form of mad cow disease. The reagent a
Hong Kong officials say the bird flu crisis in the SAR is over. Fresh chicken will be back on Hong Kong people's dinner tables on February 7, but consumers have been warned they must change their
Reeling under a pest attack, crop failure and heavy debts, 44 farmers commit suicide.
LG : LT Governor Tejinder Khanna has refused to grant the Delhi Vidyut Board permission to take its transmission line through the central ridge. Even the Ridge Management Board (RMB) had reservations
A pain-free way of measuring glucose levels in diabetics may soon go on large-scale clinical trials. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, have already tested the device.
Fifty cases of food poisoning in two weeks have been reported among people eating large coral reef fish. Scientists blamed the Hong Kong govrernment, slamming a lack of control over the huge and
To facilitate collaborative research in biomedical science which entails exchange of biological materials between laboratories, the expert committee constituted by the Indian Council of Medical
With senior police officer Kiran Bedi taking up the cause of cleaning the environs around the famous Kirti Mandir in Porbunder, the 15,000 strong community of fishermen in the area could find
The officials of the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai are chalking out plans to reintroduce some of the "excess population of animals" back into the
The famous Rock Apes of Gibraltar are to be fed contraceptives to curb a population that threatens to grow beyond control. The contraceptives would be hidden in the monkey's food and some of the
Making provision for leasing instead of outright purchase of lands for corporate farming, in selected centres and encouraging research and development in both private and public sectors to develop
They are walking for others and with a purpose. Thirty-two Britishers flying across Indian ocean have come down to Garden City, not on a jaunt, but to participate in a walkathon organised to raise
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has chalked up a series of programmes to mark the International Year of the Ocean, which is being observed this year. The
The shift from a subsistence level rural setting to a planned urban set up has come as a severe jolt to the inhabitants of Kuksheth village. So much so, they'd rather term their relocation as
