Apollo starts free medicare for poor
The Indraprasth Apollo Hospital, Delhi, has finally started providing free beds to poor patients. The hospital claims that the free treatment meted out to patients includes a free bed, diet, doctors'
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Govt to go ahead with changes in Foreign Trade Act
The Union governmetn is going ahead with amendment to the Foreign TRade (Development and Regulation) Act 1992 for incorporating provision of quantitative import restrictions in line with the WTO
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North-South initiative sparks distant hopes for AIDS vaccine
Research groups from Kenya, South Africa, the US and Britain have been given the go-ahead to jointly develop two HIV/AIDS vaccines designed specifically for developing countries. Trials are set to
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HC seeks govt stance on fresh anti-quackery Bill
The Delhi High Court asked the Delhi Government whether it proposed to take up a fresh bill to check quackery before the Delhi Assembly, since the earlier one - the Delhi Quackery Prohibition Bill,
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Amgen gets boost from court ruling
The surprise verdict by a Chicago arbitration panel giving Amgen Inc. sole rights to a promising new drug is good news for the biotechnology company. The panel ruled that a next-generation anemia
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Toy story
Christmas 1998's scare comes courtesy of the environmentalist movement. Earlier this year, Greenpeace activists raided a Hong Kong outlet of the Toys "R" Us chain, pulling baby toys from the shelves.
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Leopard census from Jan 5
The six-day-long tiger and leopard census, 1999, will be held in Orissa's Simlipal tiger reserve forest from January 5. According to official sources here, altogetehr 53 census units would cover the
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23 children rescued from Nepal carpet factory
The police rescued 23 children and young adults in a raid on a carpet-weaving factory at Kathmandu after two youths escaped from a 30-month ordeal to raise the alarm, an English daily reported on
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Your French wine may just have pesticides
The lowly wine cork may have been unfairly blamed for the poor taste of some wines produced in France's Bordeaux region over the past decade, this was reported by two French magazines on Sunday. The
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City's environment resembles Nazi gas chambers
To damn with your black lungs, your air thick with pernicious pollutants, your child born with asthma. The city was in the grip of a maniac swadeshi politics and nepotic rulers, as pollution bgan to
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Airlines tiptoe in with muffled fleets
Airplane noise has gotten a lot softer, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and a 10 year program with that in mind is approaching a pianissimo finale. But some airlines will face a
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Decision on ramaining gas-hit wards soon
ADvani : The Union Home Minister L K Advani recently assured a delegation of BJP leaders from Bhopal that the decision on declaring remaining wards of Bhopal as gas-hit would be taken soon.
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Project to develop combination medications in TN
Shantimalai Trust, the non-governmental organisation working for the development of the villages in the vicinity of the Arunachala hill in Thiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu, is in the process
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Forest fires in J&K
Forest fires have been reported across Jammu and Kashmir, some of them apparently sparked by the cross border shelling. While the initial reports of forest fires were received from the outskirts of
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Call to put antelope on endangered list
Environmentalists plan to urge the US government to add an antelope, found only in the remote Himalayan high plains of China and Tibet, to its endangered species list so as to help stop the global
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Kerala seeks Central help
Kerala has sought Central assistance of Rs. 2.5 crore to fight for foot and mouth disease in cattle. In a letter to the Union Agriculture Minister, Kerala food and civil supplies minister E.
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Wyeth Lederle unveils vaccine for pneumonia
Pharaceutical major, Wyeth Lederle, is augmenting its vaccine business by adding new vaccines to its nascent vaccines portfolio in India. The most recent addition is Pnu-Immune 23, a product that
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NGOs propose CoFAB as an alternative for UPOV
Two Delhi-based NGOs have proposed a new treaty of developing countries for protecting the farmers rights as an alternative to Union for Protection of New Plant Varieties (UPOV). The NGOs, Gene
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Blow to hopes for use of genetically altered seed
Industry hopes that France might soon permit the use of certain genetically altered corn seeds have been delivered a new blow. France's Council of State, which monitors aministrative law, had
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Poisoning halts production of Nestle's Italian Christmas cake
Nestle has halted production of panettone - Italy's favourite Christmas cake - after rat poison inserted by the Animal Liberation Front was found in two cakes in shops in Florence and Bologna. The