No unnatural tiger deaths in Orissa zoo since 10 died in 2000 The day in the Nandan Kanan Zoo begins at 8 am with two veterinary doctors and the keepers making rounds of the animal and bird enclosures, administering medicines and vaccines where required. Health records of the animals in each enclosure are maintained in separate registers. The vets sign them with their observations and

More studies needed on pralidoxime, a drug used to treat pesticide poisoning a team of two drugs is prescribed by who to combat organophosphorous pesticide poisoning. The most widely used class of pesticides, it causes about 200,000 deaths each year, globally. Now, one of the two drugs has come under the scanner because various studies have found it to be ineffective and harmful.

Household pests like termites, cockroaches household pests like termites, cockroaches and ants can now be controlled using a sugar-derivative. Pesticides that are usually used to control these insects can harm more living beings

Not just an eclipse, it provides clues to the presence of life a lunar eclipse is considered very special astrologically. It is revered as a propellor of life-changing events. Now scientists revere it too

The coffee plant might soon take over the Western Ghats cultivated crops are usually not invasive, but coffee

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Hydrogen peroxide signals white blood cells to reach wounds not many people know it by its real name. They are familiar with it as the bleaching agent in fairness products or as an antiseptic. But hydrogen peroxide is not our invention for treating wounds. Our bodies use it to marshal white blood cells to injured tissues. Until now it was believed that white blood cells produce

Disease, bleaching events killed corals in the Caribbean caribbean coral reefs have lost their complex structure and flattened over the past 40 years said a study by University of East Anglia in the UK. The marine population and fishing industry that depend on them feel the impact of this change the most. The coastline has become more vulnerable to wave action and hurricanes.

It provides the oldest skeletal evidence of leprosy a museum in Pune has a collection of thousands of bones and skeletons excavated in India. Among them is a 4,000 year old skeleton of a man believed to be 37 years when he died. This skeleton was found buried at Balathal, about 40 km north-east of Udaipur in Rajasthan. What sets it apart from other skeletons at the museum of the

At a Tehran home, a family and its neighbours shout,