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The UK government has renewed its 'spy in the sky' contract with National Remote Sensing Centre, the company which uses satellite imagery to verify farmers applications for arable aid from the

Gerald Pier, of Harvard Medical School in Boston and his colleagues studied the relationship between salmonella typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever, and the protein which, when faulty,

Even as civil works have commenced at Okkiyam Thuraipakkam site for resettling 6,500 families living in "objectionable areas" in Chennai, the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) has proposed a

International Healthcare major SmithKline Beecham (SB), is all set to launch a cluster of vaccines in India in 1998-99. These include a hepatitis-A vaccine, a two-in-one hepatitis A &B vaccine and

Hong Kong is facing a renewed threat from the red tide sea algae which has already devastated the fishing industry, an expert said, on Friday, as five beaches were closed to

In what is considered a major disarmament milestone, the five nuclear weapons states have decided to make public their plutonium stocks in civilian nuclear facilites and manage these by agreed

A flourishing kidney theft racket, involving foreign national was traced to a nursing home in Ranchi by a Mumbai Crime Branch team, following complaints of a man who was robbed of one of his kidneys

The United States will not revoke the ban on shrimp imports from India unless Indian fishermen use turtle-excluding devices (TED), the State Department said on Friday. India and some other countries

As rescuers searched for more bodies in the wake of the huge mudslides in Italy that have killed at least 54 people, the nation began to count the cost of the corruption and mismanagement that

For thousands of farmers in Patiala district, their investment in black gold - as the sunflower seed is called - may turn out to be a cropper. These farmers, who have sown sunflower in 14,000