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Drooping research
Research departments in the UK are likely to lose out to international competition due to a severe shortage of equipment required for critical experiments in areas of current research. Multinational
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The alcoholic gene
Alcoholism and genes: a collaborative study is closing on in establishing a link between the two
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Fumes and wrinkles
Smoking not only affects your mouth and lung but it also plays a vicious part in expediting ageing and is responsible for premature wrinkles
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Listen and learn
To facilitate development and training in rural areas, the Indian Space Research Organisation is starting the
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Saying it with clay
The Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute's Naroda Centre in Gujarat has devised a new process to develop superior black pottery from common clay. Under a project sponsored by the Rural
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Saved by a signal
Rescue operations in the high seas get a boost with the development of a new communication device
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INDIA
• For ensuring the safety of six major dams
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Friendly foes
An obnoxious weed is turned into much needed compost for raising plants in a nursery
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Greening the fibre
jute workers of West Bengal got a fresh lease of life with the development of a substitute for the environmentally suspect jute batching oil (jbo). The Jute Technological Research Laboratory
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Good riddance
the concerns raised over the issue of incinerating hospital wastes will hopefully be set at rest with new rules announced by the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb). Disposables made of
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Quick zeolites
India is poised to become a leading player in the global chemical processing market, thanks to the efforts of researchers at the Pune-based National Chemical Laboratory (NCL). The NCL scientists
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Restoring the cover
the depleted rain forests of the Western Ghats may yet regain some of their green cover if the efforts of scientists from the Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute (tbgri) in Palode,
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A BITTER PILL
The world's largest seller of pharmaceuticals, Glaxo Wellcome of UK, lost the latest round of a protracted legal battle in the US. A North Carolina court ruling on July 5 gave the green signal to
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The whiff of money
Equipped with special sensor rays, this high grade counterfeit bill detector developed by the Japanese is capable of identifying even the most sophisticated fake bills
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RESCUED FINALLY
The Supreme Court of India recently directed the Gujarat government to stop felling trees in the Narayan Sarovar Chin kara Sanctuary in Kutch to clear the ground for a mega cement factory.
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Wonder wood
Wood which is aesthetically pleasing and exceptionally resistant can now be made out of recycled polystyrene
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In Focus
The AIDS menace has once again occupied the centrestage. In one of the largest gatherings in recent years, over a 15,000-strong crowd of AIDS experts, activists, drug manufacturers and film stars met
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Handy sniffer
The seeping out of refrigerants can now be detected with the help of a competent, handy detector
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Tiger tales
the tigers of Uttar Pradesh (up) are having a bad time. According to the latest tiger census carried out in 1995, the tiger population of the state has declined to its lowest since 1984.