Mandamus on garbage dumping
The Supreme Court issued a mandamus to the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) and Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City to suspend dumping garbage along the banks of Bagmati river along the Balkhu-Chobhar
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Environment Ministry withdraws ban on harvesting of Sharks
The Environment Ministry has lifted its July 11 blanket ban on harvesting of sharks in the Country. Instead, nine species have been listed as endangered in a fresh notification, which according to
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For experiments some primates are a must : AIIMS docs
Research work at the Physiology and Pharmacology departments at AIIMS has almost come to a standstill. Reason : The lack of higher primates like Chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys for experimentation.
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Rains leave 46 dead in Brazil
Hundreds of poor families in Rio state are spending a soggy and miserable Christmas after torrential rains sparked floods and landslides that killed at least 46 people, officials said on
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X-mas mass to begin early
Bowing to Supreme Court directives to adhere to the 10 p.m. deadline on the use of loudspeakers in public places, most of the 113 churches in the country' commercial capital would commence midnight
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Elephants kill 3 in MP
Three persons, including two women, were killed by a herd of six elephants at Batanagar village of the district Raigarh (Madhya Pradesh), the police said on Sunday. The elephants entered the village
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Causes of many kinds of cancer in Toms river are still mysterious
The residents came to the high school this evening hoping to hear reassuring certainties from state and federal scientists who have examined local fears that the community's high rates of childhood
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Japan to provide $8m for polio eradication
Japan has agreed to provide 997 million yen (approximately $8.0 million) to Pakistan through Unicef, for purchasing polio vaccines. The funding is aimed at helping Pakistan in its campaign against
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Doctors combine Prozac, Zoloft with fen-phen's safer half
Phenermine, half of the controversial weight-loss combination fen-phen, is back. However, this time it is being combined with popular antidepressants to help people lose weight.
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Ranbaxy joins $100-mn cos club in US within 4 yrs
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. has beaten some of the big names in the international pharma industry to join the $ 100 million companies club in the US in less than four years.
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Americans may move toward smaller cars
Americans may be moving away from large, gas guzzling vehicles, and toward smaller, more fuel efficient cars, shows a study by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).
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Drug can interfere with aspirin
A painkilling drug, ibuprofen, can seriously interfere with aspirin's ability to protect against a heart attack,researchers say. The results, if confirmed, would have important implications for
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Coalition seeks ban on toxic wood preservatives
A coalition of environmental and public health groups is petitioning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the use of toxic wood preservatives. The groups want the EPA to stop the
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Ebola virus spreads to Congo
Despite stepped-up border controls, an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has spread from Gabon to the neighboring Congo Republic, the World Health Organization and government officials said. The
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WHO report says revolution in global health funding would save at least 8m lives a year
At least 8m lives could be saved every year and the life expectancy and prosperity of the poorest nations transformed if the world agreed significant investment to fight disease, according to a
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Diagnosis of world's health focuses on economic benefit
For $101 billion a year in medical research and treatments, eight million lives could be saved annually in the developing world, and $186 billion a year in world income now lost to illness could be
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Vidhan Sabha resolves to check female foeticide
The declining number of female children born in the Capital has left Delhi with the disturbing distinction of having the poorest sex ratio in the country. With the number of 'missing girls' aged
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A number of provisions made for compulsory licensing after 2005
The report of the joint committee of both houses of parliament on the patents (Second Amendment) Bill has left plenty of room for compulsory licensing of patented drugs after
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Congress passes environmental bill
Congress on passed the biggest environmental bill of the year in UK, a 5-year venture giving states up to $200 million a year to clean up more than 500,000 polluted industrial sites. The House
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Environment summit in South Africa to battle poverty
The world must work to find an antidote to the poison of poverty at a follow-up Earth Summit in South Africa next year, a U.N. environment chief said. "The most toxic substance, also for the