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Shantha Biotechnics alleges smear campaign by SmithKline Beecham

The Hyderabad-based Shantha Biotechnics Private Limited (SBPL) has threatened to take drug ginat SmithKline Beecham (SB) to court for indulging in a 'smear campaign' against its new hepatitis

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British eco team coming tomorrow

A British environment team will be visiting the city on February 5 and 6. The mission aims to evaluate factors in the Indian economy affecting environmental changes and their relationship to

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ILO warns of global rise in child labour

The world has a quarter of a billion child workers and their numbers are set to rise, according to an International Labour Office report

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IBM develops chip that outpaces Intel's Pentium

International Business Machines Corp. has built and tested a superfast computer chip that indicates chip makers won't hit a technological brick wall anytime soon when it comes to

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- TK 280 crore forestation plan for CHT

A massive forestation programme in 900 acres of land is going on in Chittagong Hill Tracts Region at a cost of Tk 280 crore. The Department of Forest is implementing the programme with the

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- WB, donors to spend $1bn in health sector of Bangladesh

The World Bank and other multilateral donor agencies will spend about one billion US dollar in the country's health, nutrition and population

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- Efforts to create forest gardens underway

Initiatives are underway to create "forest gardens" in 52 districts of Bangladesh, including Bandarban, under a donor aided project. These gardens are meant to stop land erosion, rehabilitate Jhumia

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- Food aid improves rural poor's life

'Food Aid Reduces Poverty' published in Dhaka provided an insight into the specific value of food assistance as a tool to promote people oriented development for improving household food security in

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Concern over agarwood smuggling

Smuggling in Agarwood in Rajapara Beat under Loharghat Range in the Kamrup West Forest Division has caused strong concern not only to the Forest Department but also to the conscious people of South

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Clinton eyes tobacco goldmine

The enactment of President Bill Clinton's ambitious new social policy agenda depends in large part on a projected $65.5bn extra revenue from the tobacco industry over the next five

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