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- Indians to become guinea pigs for testing 'banana vaccine'

India will become a testing ground for anti hepatitis-B vaccine which is yet to get the US FDA approval for human testing. Cornell University , US, is believed to have chosen India as the test site

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- Enforcement of Forest Conservation Act puts Bihar's mica trade in a jeopardy

Trading of mica in Bihar has been severely afflicted by the strict enforcement of the Forest Conservation Act, passed in 1980, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, its major consumer. The situation

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- Smoking more likely to kill women

Women smokers have a 50 per cent higher risk of dying from a heart attack than men who smoke, say researchers. A likely reason is that tobacco smoke has an adverse effect on the female hormone

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- Illegal felling of trees going on at large scale

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06/04/1998

The forest areas occupy maximum space among the five districts of Sagar division of Bundelkhand region as a result State government had formed one new forest circle by separating Chhatarpur,

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- Rs 200 cr cotton crop loss in Muktsar

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06/04/1998

It was the worst year for the cotton growers of the country as it led so many suicides in South. In totality, the cotton growers suffered heavily as about 40 lakh bales of cotton were damaged due to

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- Mangoes may come dear this season

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06/04/1998

The king of fruits has lost its crown. The mango crop all over the southern states and in Maharashtra has failed and as a result, the price is expected to push skywards.

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- Bankers reschedule converted crop loans

The Andhra Pradesh State-Level Bankers' Committee has increased the repayment period of converted crop loans from seven to nine years as a part of relief measures extended to the affected farmers in

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Working stiffs

Mummies from rural oasis provide a rare window onto the brief, backbreaking lives of ordinary Egyptians 2,000 years ago : a

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Crop production decreasing due to sharp decline of minerals

Crop production has been decreasing alarmingly due to sharp decline of minerals in the soil in all 13 thanas of the Kishoreganj district. Sources said about 75 percent land of the district have

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Spirulina can be produced at family level

Scientists at Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BSCSIR) have succeeded in developing a low cost technology for the production of nutrition rich spirulina, a blue-green micro

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