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Surf the Net with a mobile phone

Five leading high-tech companies introduced a technology last week that can accelerate the convergence of mobile communications and computing by the wireless transfer of voice and data among mobile

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Fingerprinting for diagnosis

India, being the third country in the world to have developed its own DNA fingerprinting technology, is set to take a giant leap forward with the application of pre-natal diagnosis to detect myraid

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Stop leaf-bruning, demands Iqbal Malik

Describing leaf burning as a serious health, ecological and social hazard, an environmental group has urged people to create social pressure against it as the Tree Authority of India has not declared

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Ignorance leading to rise in breast cancer

About 500 to 600 new cases of breast cancer are referred every year to the Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital of All India Institute of Medical Sciences and 80 per cent are in an advanced stage as most

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TN writes off farmers loan after 25 years !

An amazing case of a loan write-off by the government of India, which along with interest and penal interest exceeds Rs 1.23 crore, 25 years after it was given to farmers for agricultural pumpsets in

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India cannot afford total ban on child labour

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25/05/1998

Union Labour Minister Satyanarayan Jatia indicated that all necessary steps would be taken by the Centre, in cooperation with State Governments, to abolish the contract system practiced throughout

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Punjab paddy farmers ignore expert advice

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25/05/1998

A large majority of the paddy growers in Punjab have ignored the advice of experts both with regard to time of transplanting and choice of variety. They had started transplantation a month ahead-

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Indian mammals, birds exposed says Worldwatch

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25/05/1998

India is among the top 10 countries threatened with high species losses, according to Worldwatch, a leading Washington-based environmental research organisation."When the percentages of threatened

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Ceramic material not brittle, can take heat

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25/05/1998

The Osaka National Research Institute said it has combined graphite with silicon nitride to develop a high-strength composite ceramic material that is not brittle and also features high temperature

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Toxic-waste solution may grow on trees

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25/05/1998

Hokkaido Forest Products Research Institute has developed a process in which conifer leaves remove heavy metal from

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