Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Eggs have been a controversial food in the recent years with conflicting claims about its nutritious content. Critics claim that they are dangerous as eggs contain as much as 210 mg of cholesterol. Because of this, the theory goes, eating eggs result in heart diseases. But egg supporters keep reassuring …
Those pesky flies that park themselves on food and cause diarrhoea have been blamed for causing blindness. A new study in Africa suggests that flies may be responsible for spreading trachoma, the leading cause of blindness in developing countries like India. Trachoma is a painful type of highly contagious conjunctivitis …
some patients may find it strange advice to be told to keep off fruit juice while taking medications. But that is precisely what doctors are telling some sick people
often mothers leave lights on in the nursery or where babies and toddlers are made to sleep. This could be either due to the feelings of mothers that light could be comforting or just as a precautionary measure as light is always more reassuring for one's security. However, research just …
it is not only humans that have understood the importance of sticking together for success. For long we have known that animals also keep together for survival. But few expected that tiny microbes also adopt this strategy to ward off the efforts of drugs and doctors to finish them. Now …
Tissue engineering may open the way for bladder replacement in patients who have lost their own bladder due to some disease. In a scientific breakthrough, tissue engineers have reconstructed the urinary bladder of a dog. This was done by extracting cells from both the outside and the inside of the …
a string of new human pathogens has been added recently to the popular pantheon of demonology. The Ebola virus is one of the deadliest among these. It resembles the influenza virus in the early stages of infection in terms of its effects, and rapidly induces fever accompanied by shock, diffuse …
it takes anywhere from one-thirtieth to one-tenth of a second for a visual stimulus falling on the retina of the eye to evoke neural activity in the brain. This time is long enough for a rapidly moving object to cover a fair distance, implying that when we see such an …
ian Wilmut, the scientist who created Dolly, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult cell has struck a million-dollar deal with a us company to work on human cloning. According to a report in the London Daily Telegraph , Wilmut had agreed to help develop techniques to clone a …
whether it is a vegetable or a fruit may never be established conclusively. But the luscious red of the tomato has qualities hitherto unknown: it helps prevent cancers. Tomatoes get their red colour from lycopene, a natural pigment. Lycopene is also found in pink grapefruit, watermelon and guava, among other …
millions of couples the world over often face this question: Is there an ideal period between the birth of the first and second child? It is known in medical circles that having babies too close together can be bad for an infant's health as the mother's body does not get …
Journeys by plane, car or train that last more than five hours lead to an increase in the risk of venous thrombo-embolic disease, the formation of blood clots or air bubbles in blood vessels. Emile Ferrari from the Hopital Pasteur, Nice, France, studied 160 patients who suffered with the above-mentioned …
People who live alone and have few friends are prone to early death as their hearts' responses to stress are altered, say Myriam Horsten and her colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. In a study conducted on 300 healthy women, the researchers found women who lived alone and …
MEMORY FOR CHILDREN: Clinical trials on the efficacy of Memory Plus capsule have shown that it is effective on children suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHA). The trials were conducted by the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow (CDRI). Raj Kumar, managing director of Velvette International Pharma Ltd, the manufacturers …
aids experts got another piece of bad news: patients are passing on strains of the virus that resist one or more drugs. Consequently, the minute some people get infected, there will be some drugs that will probably be ineffective. Very soon there may be a need to see if it …
Cutting back on blood transfusions for the critically ill can actually improve some patients' chances of survival, according to a study that may have a far-reaching impact on the treatment of the critically ill. After studying over 830 critically ill and anaemic patients in hospitals across Canada, Paul C Hebert …
A study on mice shows that animals who run on an exercise wheel create more new cells in the hippocampus, the part of the brain involved in learning and memory. Now, scientists are trying to find out if the extra brain cells make mice smarter. Some mice got to use …
it has been immortalised in public memory by the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo . Yet only those who suffer from it know the feeling. Anything from the sound of the buzz on the telephone to music or cheering at a sporting event can give vertigo to some people. Vertigo is …
