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For the past three years Orissa coast has been experiencing severe erosion due to choppy sea. To ascertain the reasons behind erosion as well as draw up possible mitigation measures, marine experts of National Institute of Oceanography conducted surveys in the affected areas.

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Astronomers have detected the most distant gamma-ray burst ever found. The cosmic explosion came from a star that detonated about 12.8 billion light years from earth.

APPREHENDING a major calamity like the 1993 Latur quake after the recent tremors that rattled parts of western Maharashtra, the state government has decided to approach national agencies and commission studies in the Koyna region.

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In a path-breaking initiative that has the potential to revolutionalise the drug manufacturing sector, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Monday launched its Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) programme with the aim of finding a cheap medicine for tuberculosis.

The main objective of the initiative is to produce effective and cheap drugs for diseases like tuberculosis and malaria, which mainly afflict people in developing countries like India, through an alternative process that cannot be patented.

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Sikkim has led the way by setting up a Commission on Glacier and Climate in the State in September 2007.

According to ML Arrawatia, member secretary of the Commission and also Secretary of Science and Technology department, Government of India has also taken steps to study the glaciers of the country. Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh has released a book also on National Action Plan for climate change and he has set up a national council to study it.

BHUBANESWAR: As threat increases to coastal regions with climate change, the State Government has moved towards creation of a directorate to combat the looming danger.

This, probably, is for the first time that a State has planned a dedicated wing - Coastal Erosion Protection Directorate - to meet the challenges of coastal erosion which, lately, has dealt a body blow to the shoreline along many stretches.