Malaria is threatening to assume epidemic proportions in Orissa with 116 lives lost till June this year and the toll likely to touch 400 by the year-end.The problem has got aggravated by lack of

The Union Ministry for Agriculture has ordered killing of the predatory fish piranhas which are being clandestinely bred in different parts of the country for aquariums. Under the law, exotic fish

Only a tenth of the approximately 10,000 kg of hospital waste churned out daily by the 815-odd hospitals in Ahmedabad goes into the two large incinerators the city has. What does not go into them is

Scientists at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, are currently testing an ointment against male impotence. The Ointment - called Med 900 -is applied to the penis and works

The flood situation in eastern Uttar Pradesh worsened in 20 districts with flood water marooning parts of Gorakhpur city and the toll mounting to more than 500. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is

The forest of this border district, which are a treasure trove of rare medicinal herbs, are on the verge of extinction following over-exploitation. The herbs - some of which command high prices in

Lord Ganesha is joining the campaign against plastic bags this season with the Brihanmumbai Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Samanvaya Samiti(BSGSS) urging Ganapati mandals to refrain from using plastic bags

The Delhi High Court has directed the NDMC and MCD to submit a concrete "plan of action" by Septemeber 10 on how to keep the Capital clean. A division bench asked the NDMC chairman and Deputy

By the turn of the century, hi-value medicinal drugs including those used to treat breast, ovary and uterus cancers, should be available at one fourth the prices for the same drugs currently

The superstition that girls who attain puberty do not augur well for crops is making farmers employ a large number of minor girls as agricultural labour in the cotton seed farms of the backward

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