AIDS drug to be marketed soon
An Indian firm has developed a drug that delays the onset of AIDS and reduce the cost of treatment.
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Sustaining boredom
CSD has become a stratospheric environment in which no wisdom gets injected from the perspective of the poor <br>
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The melting pot
You never thought it could happen. For the first time, geneticists have combined genes from different species
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Dream that's failed
The Mud Village Society was conceived as a "habitat in consonance with the total ecosystem". But the highly touted project may never be implemented.
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Same indifference
Last week, on a visit to the cold desert of Ladakh, I learnt something important. It made me see the ongoing agricultural negotiations at the World Trade Organization s meet in Cancun, Mexico in a
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full of gas: Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), New Delhi, has developed a technology for converting liquid natural gas into value-added liquefied petroleum gas. Following this breakthrough,
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"Polluters are today s environmentalists"
Crusader for the rights of over eight million Indian fisherfolk, <font class='UCASE'>Thomas Kochery</font> , 57, made news headlines when he rejected the US $150,000 Fellowship of Pew foundation of Massachusetts, USA. He was recently elected unanimously
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leprosy vaccine soon: Ahmedabad-based Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited has planned to launch the world's first immuno-therapeutic leprosy vaccine, called Leprovac by June this year. Pran Talwar and
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Close encounters
Introducing GMOs must proceed with caution as these products have failed to deliver so far
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Consuming to sustain?
At UNCED, the North tried using the facile argument that their larger consumption actually provided trade and jobs for the poorer South. But nobody bit the hook
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The oracle of biotechnology
The film establishes incontrovertibly that no other region of science has raised as many hackles as biotechnology
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Monkeying with money
Reluctantly funding developing countries for research on CFC substitutes is another exercise in enriching multinationals who created much of the ozone hole
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The scars remain
More hospital beds are not the answer, say survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster
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Stumbling blocks
The Gujarat earthquake struck at the very foundation of urban India. The disaster highlighted the haphazard manner in which the country's towns and cities are laid out. In its aftermath, hastily framed laws on earthquake resistant structures and ambigui
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Central Institute of Brackish water Aquaculture
Advent of commercial shrimp aquaculture has made more shrimp available to the processing sector, enabling it to make better use of plant capacity and diversify into value-added products. CIBA in its efforts at development of standardized technologies for brackishwater aquaculture has already made a mark both at the marginal farmers' and corporate sector levels.
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Press Statement on bauxite mining by the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) through Vedanta
<p>It is a press statement by Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment & Forests, Jairam Ramesh, on bauxite mining by the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) through Vedanta.
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An eyewash
Rajasthan s so called solar power project
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Villagers in Himachal Pradesh block hydel project
A local deity of villages in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh recently ordained that the construction of a hydroelectric power project should be stopped. Bowing to the divine importunations of
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Costly wait: fuel worth Rs 150cr burnt at checkposts
New Delhi: Fuel worth Rs 100-150 crore is wasted on highways annually due to inter-state and intra-state checkpost delays and elaborate checking of documents, a recent study by logistics major Transport Corporation of India (TCI) and IIM-Calcutta has found. The joint study also claimed bad road condition resulted in reduction of average truck speed to only 20 kmph.
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Hydro generation not tapped for 15 years: CAG
BHUBANESWAR: While the State is reeling under power crisis, the Government has not taken any proactive measures during the last 15 years to add hydro generation capacity despite huge potential.