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- Gene defect rare for breast cancer

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30/03/1998

Gene defects that have been linked to breast cancer are rarer than previously thought, and wide spread screening of women for the flaws would not be worthwhile, two US studies

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- 100 dyeing units in Tirupur face closure

In wake of th stringent implementation of the pollution control norms, the fate of about 100 dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur hangs in the balance. As these units have not taken any measure to

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- VHS to launch AIDS control project for CSWs

The Voluntary Health Services (VHS), Chennai, has planned to launch six STD/HIV/AIDS control and intervention projects among the commercial sex workers at various places in the State at an estimated

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Is time passing faster? The answer is in your body clock

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30/03/1998

It sometimes seems that with each passing year, the days and nights zip by more quickly. If you ever had this feeling, you are not imagining it. Studies of human time perception show that age related

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- Tobacco legislation

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30/03/1998

Caught in the haze? : After a week of day and night negotiations on tobacco legislation, leading US senators have agreed to drive up the price of a pack of cigarettes by $1.10 over the next five

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- Greenpeace forest actions end in Glasgow, continue in Frankfurt

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30/03/1998

Four Greenpeace activists who boarded the shipment of ancient Canadian rainforest timber and pulp were served with an injunction to prevent them from holding up the ship, the 'Saga Wind', run by Saga

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- Trial of 18 environmentalists begins in Vancouver

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30/03/1998

The trial of 18 environmentalists arrested on June 24, 1997 for blockading the clearcut logging operations of International Rainforests Products on King Island in the Great Bear Rainforest begins

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- Silk production in West Bengal hit by pesticides

Silk production in Malda, West Bengal, which accounts for a share of 6.5 per cent in the state's raw silk output, has suffered due to large scale usage of pesticides in the neighbouring mango

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- TN forms district-level public hearing panels

The Tamil Nadu Government has constituted public hearing panels for various districts in the State which would hold public hearing on proposed industrial projects before the issue of the 'no

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- Orissa HC clears tendering for kendu leaf sale

The Orissa high court has settled the three-month-old controversy over the sale of kendu leaf in favour of the state-owned Orissa Forest Development Corporation (OFDC). On Tuesday, the court

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