New policy soon to help bee-keeping industry
The Karnataka state government will shortly introduce minimum support price and procurement policies for honey and its by-products to ensure that the efforts of the farmers in bee-keeping are well
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State seeks Rs 81.95 crore from Centre Relief to hail hit farmers
Madhya Pradesh government has sought additional assistance of Rs 80.95 crore for giving relief to the farmers and other persons affected by the recent hailstorm. The Revenue Department had sent a
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Improved treatment pulls down US HIV-infected rate
Doctors have been so successful in saving the lives of people with AIDS that the number of Americans with HIV is actually increasing again holding steady for years and is now approaching 1 million.
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Pneumonia claims heavy toll in 3 districts
Pneumonia which broke out in an epidemic form indifferent areas of Jessore district, Bangladesh has taken a toll of 30 children and more than 300 other are suffering from the disease.
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Workshop on migratory population held
A two-day seminar -cum-workshop on urban migratory population held in Chandigarh concluded today with the observation that the urban migratory population of Chandigarh has increased and needs to be
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Revamp food mgt policy and sharpen focus on non-cereals
The Economic Survey makes a strong case for a drastic change in the country's food management policy and therefore, in the overall agricultural strategy. Apart from reforming procurement and price
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New drugs for AIDS
Medicines are in development to attack the AIDS virus in entirely new ways, including several designed to keep HIV from ever gaining entry to the cells it kills. The goal is to find alternatives to
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Boost to a faltering campaign
A team of scientists in Britain and the United States has cracked the code of the malaria genome, a step that may help boost the faltering campaign against the resurgent disease. The genome was
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Operation on fetus's heart valve
Doctors in Boston corrected a deadly heart defect in a fetus for the first time in the USA last November, according to a report in The New York Times. Soon after he was born last November at Brigham
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Trial Alzeimer's vaccine makes 12 seriously ill
Twelve volunteers inoculated with a highly touted experimental vaccine designed to reverse the course of Alzheimer's disease have fallen seriously ill with brain inflammation, forcing the vaccine's
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Britain warned Japan about MBM in 1990
The British government warned Japan's farm ministry in 1990 that meat-and-bone meal, an animal-based feed, could be the source of mad cow disease, a ministry report to a study panel revealed. The
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New foot and mouth outbreak suspected
A five-mile exclusion zone was placed round a farm near York last night after a suspected case of foot and mouth was found, the first since September 30. Two sheep with mouth lesions, a classic
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Workshop on AIDS prevention organised
India has over 3.5 million HIV infected people - the largest in the world. The age group most affected by this disease is 18-45 which comprises majority of the workforce in companies. Today, the
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Scientists find elixir of longer life is just a myth
Scientists in Boston are studying scores of DNA samples from 100 year olds in an attempt to identify the genes that enable them to resist the diseases of ageing which affect the rest of the
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Second volcano menaces Congolese town of Goma
Volcanologists warned that a second volcano may soon erupt near Goma, threatening the Congolese town with new lava flows and an unleashing of toxic gases now trapped beneath a nearby lake.
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Bitter facts
According to a study by the Diabetes Epidemiology Survey Group in India, Bangalore accounts for 12.4 per cent of diabetics in the country today and ranks third among cities in this regard, after
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Turning urban, staying rural
A recent set of papers to emerge from the census of 2001 deals with rural urban populations in the country. Out of the total population 1.027 billion, the urban segment is 285 million or about 28 per
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Indian students participate in global programme to monitor environment
Indian students recently became members of a global family that includes over 8000 schools spread over 85 countries. These students are a part of the GLOBE programme (Global Learning and Observations
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Indian drugs feed Nigeria AIDS course
Nigerian health officials said on Tuesday they had started what has been billed as Africa's most ambitious generic AIDS drug programme, but were initially treating few patients. The programme is
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Dengue in Havana, Castro revives old US bugs bogey
Immersed in a nationwide battle against an outbreak of dengue fever, President Fidel Castro revived on Monday an old accusation against the United States of carrying out biological attacks against