Cooking salt may be contaminated
Samples of 'grain salt' from grocery shops across the country have been sent to laboratories in India for tests after reports that they contain harmful levels of metal including lead and cadmium.
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HIV drug combats resistance
A new class of drug may help meet the growing need for medicines to combat the growing problem of resistant strains of HIV. Trials currently taking place of two drugs in a class known as fusion
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Voice the right farm concerns at Doha
Though a number of issues, such as the newly-introduced government procurement policies, and some earlier ones, such as the environment and competition policies, and so on, will be dragged into the
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Case for true reform in farm trade
There seems to be no respite on the agriculture front. With the international prices remaining sluggish, and the developed countries refusing to reduce subsidies under one on e pretext or the other,
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Mega feeding trial to roll with nuns
A bowl of rice is something Asia's poor and hungry will always look forward to, but scientists hope new strains of the staple food will do much more than fill empty stomachs. The International Rice
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Anti-cracker rally by DPS students
The students of Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, on Thursday organised and anti-cracker rally and vowed to shun crackers and appealed to all children to light lamps instead. The rally was organised
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Crackers, animals don't mix, says Peta
Diwali can seem more like a terrorist attack than a festive celebration to dogs, cows, donkeys and other animals. Noisy fireworks displays are frightening to animals, who don't realise the explosions
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Polluting units to be shifted
All industrial units, causing pollution, including Dyeing Houses, located in different parts of this town will be shifted out of the town to industrial Sector 29 within sic months. According to the
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A township in nature's lap
Unlike other housing projects in West Bengal the new township at Rajarhat will have its own landscape and greenery. The Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation will fund a project to provide
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Dimoria denizens decry polluting units
The cultivators in Dimoria and the surrounding areas have been demanding, for the last two decades, adequate safeguard of their cultivable lands, said a press release issued by the Dimoria District
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$25-m award against Philip Morris upheld
A California State appeals court upheld on Wednesday a $25-million punitive damage award against Philip Morris in the case of a smoker with inoperable cancer, the company said in a statement. Phillip
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Increase in AIDS
Nepal has seen an alarming increase in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which has claimed 149 lives so far, according to the national AIDS and STD Control Centre. The centre said as many as 533 people were
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FAO warns of threat from foot-and-mouth disease and calls for global plan to control epidemics
Globalisation of trade favours the globalisation of serious epidemics such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization warned. FAO Director-General Dr. Jacques Diouf
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In anthrax inquiry, some see missteps and missed chances
The US government inquiry into the anthrax attacks has stumbled in several areas and may have missed opportunities to gather valuable evidence as criminal investigators have been unable to fully
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Growing global population tramples the planet
Human activity is altering the planet on an unprecedented scale, the United Nations agency responsible for tracking population said Wednesday. Introducing The State of World Population 2001 report,
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Policy on Indian medicine endorsed
The endeavour to formulate a separate national policy for the Indian systems of medicine and homeopathy (ISM&H) crossed a major milestone today, when a conference of State Health Ministers endorsed a
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Alarm bells ringing for birds
Conservationists are warning against the dangers of a sharply increasing crow population which might 'accelerate the pace of vanishing bird species'. Modern living with all its pitfalls is leading to
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Mauritanians rue EU fish deal with a catch
Having overfished its own waters, Europe has headed south to keep its heavily subsidised fleet in work and to feed its growing appetite for fish. In August the European Union signed its biggest
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'Run for Diabetes' on November 13
Novo Nordisk Limited, one of the leading manufacturers of insulin, is organising a 'Run for Diabetes' in the City on November 13 on the occasion of World Diabetes Day. The run is organised on the
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CM reviews 'Mahseer' fish conservation project
Chief Minister Digvijay Singh reviewed the project on conservation of endangered fish species 'Mahseer' carried out by the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology as a part of its extension