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- Rats chew into blood testing equipment worth lakhs

Human blood is similar to a pharmaceutical drug which should be manufactured with the utmost care, agree most of the doctors. But the scene at the major government hospitals tell a different story

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22/02/1998
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- WRO devises new 'rehabilitation' approach

The Water resources Organisation(WRO) of the PWD has devised an approach where those displaced by land acquisition schemes under the water Resources Consolidation Project (WRCP) will participate in

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- Bountiful rain, a fallout of El Nino

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22/02/1998

An all-time peak rainfall recorded in Tamil Nadu last year during the northeast(NE) monsson was a direct fallout of the El Nino phenomenon. Referring to predictions made in certain quarters that the

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- Japan launches satellite

Japan on saturday launched its H-2 rocket carrying a communications satellite after a one day delay due to bad weather, the National Space Development Agency of Japan said. The communications and

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- Voyager drifts into space record

More than 6.5 billion miles from home, a U.S. spacecraft carrying the sounds of a human kiss and the best wishes from a former U.S. President has become the most distant man-made object in the

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- Ancient DNA throws light on earth's history

New ways of interpreting DNA are helping scientists build an accurate evolutionary history of the planet. The craze to bring extinct creatures back from the dead began a decade ago, when Californian

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22/02/1998
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- How green are the Ghats?

Ten years after a historical 100-day march, a small group of environmentalists and green campaigners met recently in Goa's Ponda taluk to take stock . The outlook was anything but heartening. They

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22/02/1998
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- Rotart 'Manav Seva' awards presented

Only if corruption is checked and development work done can the country progress. Corruption is worse than AIDS. And giving or taking money is not the only form of corruption. What needs to be

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22/02/1998
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- New US child labour Bill seeks to penalise India , others

The USA proposes to penalise nations that do not prohibit child labour or fail to effectively enforce child labour laws. Countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, where child labour is

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22/02/1998
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- Going swimmingly

Though people have raised fish in artificial ponds for millennia, it is only once since the 1960s that the pratice has been extended to shrimp. And farming these crustaceans has rapidly become big

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21/02/1998
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