CCMB to clone lions, tigers
The city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology will adopt cloning techniques to preserve endangered species like lions and tigers in the
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40pc have anaemia during pregnancy
Almost 40 per cent of women in Pakistan are affected by iron deficiency during the pregnancy period which causes deaths in many cases and unhealthy children are born. According to medical experts,
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Prevention only remedy against AIDS
expert : Pakistan, having 1,345 HIV positive and 167 full-blown AIDS cases during the last 12 years, may not be facing an epidemic situation, say experts. However, they do not consider it a source
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Australia's Magnificent Tree Frog could hold the key to finding cancer cure
Australian tree frog could hold the key to a new range of drugs to fight cancer and voracious bacteria like golden staph which closes hospital wards, a university research team has discovered. The
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Amartya to release M.P. report today
The Madhya Pradesh Government will touch a new milestone when the Nobel laureate, Dr. Amartya Sen, releases the Madhya Pradesh Human Development Report - 1998 (MPHDR-1988) in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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National zoo policy evolved
The Centre has evolved a national policy on zoos to maintain and manage zoos with the active cooperation and participation of the authorities concerned. One of the salient features of the policy is
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Concern over pollution caused by Nagaon Paper Mill
Regional Pollution Protection and Development Demand Committee (RPPDDC), a newly formed organisation of Jagiroad has expressed serious apprehension about the unchecked disposal of toxic effluents by
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Advances in transgenic rice
The Indian scientist are genetically engineering rice to make it tolerant to adverse environment conditions and resist attacks by pathogens. Reports presented at the 86th Indian Science Congress held
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EU relaxing demand for labour, environmental norms
There seems to be growing convergence in the views of the European Union and India over the question of uniform global labour standards and enviromental norms for companies operating around the
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Concerns raised over wildlife safety
The Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal's first conservation area, completes its 25 years. But, wildlife experts and some locals living in and around the 100sqkm national park are anything but happy.
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Remarkable success in population control
Bangladesh has gained some remarkable success in population control during the last two and a half decades but the situation is not up to the expected goal. If the present population growth rate of
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Paralytic attack mystery heightens
The reasons behind the paralytic attacks (polyneurtis) on dozens of people in the villages on Banke and Bardiya districts of Nepal are still unknown even while there are indications to suggest that
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As rhino number rises, translocation is buzzword
Department of Nepal National Park and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) puts the total population of one-horned rhinos in Chitwan park alone at 500. In Bardia - whose grasslands are in many ways similar
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World population growth slows
The global population growth slowed during the last year recording an increase of only 79 million instead of the expected increase of 90 million a year during the decade, the population institute
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Good news for infertile women
Women who are suffering from infertility and waiting for successful motherhood, have cheering news from Charak Pharmaceuticals Limited, a well known Ayurvedic medicines company. M2 tone syrup
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ICAR develops pest shield for cotton farmers
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed a method of controlling pests of cotton crop to reduce dependence on expensive pesticides that drove a number of farmers into a debt
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Ban on smoking goes up in smoke
How dismal has been the implementation of the Delhi Prohibition of Smoking and Non-Smokers Health Protection Act, 1996 -- under which those caught smoking in public places were to be fined on the
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Ministry urges DCA for mandatory eco audit
The environment ministry has approached the Department of Company Affairs with a proposal to make environment audits mandatory in the proposed Companies Bill. The Ministry has suggested this audit be
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Gujarat plans to ban loose edible oil
The Gujarat government is working on a policy to ban sale of all brands of loose edible oil throughout the state by April 1, 1999. Official sources at Rajkot told the Economic Times that the state
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National zoo policy evolved
The Centre has evolved a national policy on zoos to maintain and manage them with the active cooperation and participaiton of the authorities concerned. One of the salient features of the policy is