The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
THE FRENCH government's decision to stop supplying enriched uranium for the nuclear reactor in Tarapur, 100 km north of Bombay, has thrown the Indian establishment into a tizzy. Some department of atomic energy (DAE) officials insist the French announcement is merely a ploy to make India sign the nuclear non-proliferation …
CHEERS! But be warned, the champagne in your glass may actually be a genetically engineered brew. A team of French researchers at a research centre run by champagne manufacturers Moet-Hennessy-Louis Vuitton in Colombes, near Paris, has genetically engineered grapes and implanted their cells with genes that protect them against the …
WHILE the European Community has rejected vehement French demands for a ban on the import of cheap fish primarily from Russia and other non-EC countries, it has agreed to monitor fish exports from these countries more closely. France -- one of the biggest fish consumers in the EC -- had …
THE ABORTION pill RU486 developed by French drug company Roussel-Uclaf may be available soon in the US market, following meetings between Rous-sel-Uclaf president Edouard Sakiz and US food and drugs commissioner David Kessler. Women's groups are eagerly awaiting RU486, but anti-abortion groups in USA are threatening,a boycott of the US …
The West Bengal government has begun work on developing an elephant sanctuary in the contiguous forest areas of Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia. The state government's decision has been prompted by regular clashes between the local population and elephants, both of which are growing in number and need more space. Inhabitants …
MAJOR differences of opinion have surfaced within the government in Japan over the shipment of weapons-grade plutonium from Europe even as the Japanese freighter Akatsuki Maru continues its 27,000 km-long journey from Cherbourg in France to Japan. This is the first large-scale shipment of commercial plutonium fuel, the opening step …
FRENCH willingness to share space research and nuclear power expertise with India is considered a welcome and viable alternative coming as it does in the wake of a US ban on the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), following ISRO's decision to buy cryogenic engines from Russia. French minister for research …
Finally, France's former Socialist prime minister Laurent Fabius, secretary of state for health Edmund Herve and social affairs minister Georgina Dufoix are to be tried in a parliamentary court in the AIDS scandal currently rocking the nation. In 1985, when Fabius was prime minister, 1,000 haemophiliacs were given a blood …
THE TRADITIONALLY smoke-filled Paris bars face an identity crisis: Will the recent ban on indoor smoking clean up their air? The law requiring special sections to be set aside for smokers was enacted after official figures put the number of smoking-related deaths at 54,000 last year in France. However, restaurateurs …
Despite widespread international criticism, Japan has decided to go ahead with shipment of 30 tonnes of reprocessed plutonium from France and Britain over the next two decades to enhance its nuclear energy production. Even before the first cargo of 1.7 tonnes could set out from Cherbourg in France for Yokohama, …
The latest rage in the West is products like music, ink and cards based on DNA's atomic structure. A French biotechnology company has developed Le Biopen, a special writing instrument that uses ink containing short strands of DNA, whose exact sequence is konwn only to the company. The pen can …
AIDS HAS claimed another victim -- this time one who is serving a four-year prison sentence after paying 500,000 franc (Rs 3.1 lakh) fine. The trial on a charge of distributing HIV-tainted blood through the French National Blood Transfusion Centre in 1985, ended with the centre's director, Michel Garretta, the …
WHEN YEAST'S chromosome III became the first chromosome to have its DNA described fully, a big surprise lay in store for scientists: They stumbled upon a wealth of genes whose functions are completely unknown. "All of a sudden we learn there is a whole class of genes, more than half …
In this issue, we carry two reports: One on the subject of human rights suppression and environmental degradation, and the other on trade bans against environmentally harmful products. Both trade and human rights are being used today as sticks to beat the South. Northern NGOs have repeatedly raised these issues …
The ICFAE 2014: International Conference on Food and Agricultural Engineering aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Food and Agricultural Engineering. It also provides the premier interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and educators …
Welcome to the official website of the 2015 4th International Conference on Geological and Environmental Sciences (ICGES 2015) will be held during August 5-6 in Paris France. ICGES 2015, is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Geological and Environmental Sciences to a common forum.The …
2015 3rd Journal Conference on Environmental Science and Development (JCESD 2015 3rd) aims to provide a forum for researchers, pactitioners, and professinals from the industry, academia and government to discourse on research and development, professional practice in environmental science and development. JCESD 2015 3rd will be held in Paris, France …
The International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) warmly invite you to the joint 9th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC9) to be held in Toulouse, France from July 20-24, 2015.These meetings are preeminent events for the presentation of research on the urban climate effect …
Welcome to the official website of the 2015 5th International Conference on Environmental and Agriculture Engineering (ICEAE 2015) will be held during August 5-6 in Paris, France. ICEAE 2015, is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Environmental and Agriculture Engineering to a common forum.The …
The IRES – 9th International Conference on Food and Agricultural Engineering (ICFAE) aimed at presenting current research being carried out in that area and scheduled to be held on November 7th 2015 in Paris, France. The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the …