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US sets aside funds for child labour eradication

The Clinton administration has proposed an additional funding of $86 million to help strengthen the enforcement of child labour laws in the US and overseas, including South

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UK environment mission for tie-ups, tech transfers

Enormous opportunities existed in India in the field of environmental technology and services, and trasfer of technology, and many commercial organisations in the UK would be willing to look at

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Water management centre soon

UNESCO is setting up an international centre on water resource management in India. Announcing this at a press conference in New Delhi, Dr. Federico Mayor, Director General, UNESCO said that the

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Australia-aided farm research project apace

Work on three year collaborative agricultural research project which has been taken up by the Union Government with assistance from Australia for planning sustinable soil management on semi arid

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National anti-leprosy campaign delayed

A nation wide programme aimed at facilitating the elimination of leprosy has got derailed thanks to the election campaign. The programme, which envisaged bringing out the large number of leprosy

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Clinton offers $ 86 million fund

The US-led anti-child labour campaign in South Asia will get a boost with President Bill Clinton's allocation of an additional $ 86 million to help enforce child labour laws at home and abroad.

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Gene causing rare form of hair loss found

Scientists have discovered a gene that causes a rare and extreme form of hair loss, a finding they say could one day point to better remedies for common hereditary baldness.

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Suicide by pesticide

After the failure of the cotton crop, a large numbers of farmers in Andhra Pradesh are committing suicide by consuming the very pesticide that is the root of their woe

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30/01/1998
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Dying in isolation

A small group of islands in the Bay of Bengal is being eaten up by the sea

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Caught in a crossfire

A proposed power generation project in Laos has become the target of environmentalists ire

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