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President Jiang Zemin pledged China would intensify its campaign to curb population growth with strict family planning policies and continue efforts to protect the environment. "Family planning and

British foreign secretary Robin Cook was grounded in Cyprous by a sandstorm, even before facing political storms, as the West Asia was enveloped in towering clouds of sand driven by high winds on

WHO has called for a firm commitment by the developed countries in order to achieve the ambitious goal of universal access to quality and affordable reproductive health services, set at the World

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation seems to have lost faith in the sincerity of multinational oil companies in helping it overcome some of the complicated reservoir problems faced by offshore oil fields

Though Bangalore city seems to be heading for a very dry summer this year, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board says it has projects, which if completed on time, will be a long term solution

Conventional techniques for detecting compounds of environmental, clinical and industrial importance are slowly giving way to the use of biosensors which utilise biological components to detect such

Whan a pair of 11-year old twins were diagnosed with diabetes, the doctor treating them prescribed daily insulin injections. The parents were shattered. Their's was not a lone case. Increasingly,

An exhausted little kakapo has cracked out of its egg with a little human help in New Zealand, fuelling hopes for the endangered species' survival. "It was moving around the egg and squeaking and

Haryana has decided to bid farewell to prohibition in the state. A formal seal will be put on this decision when the legislators of the Haryana Vikas Party and the BJP meet in Chandigarh to discuss

Plant bio-technology will generate higher yields, create healthier foods and increase plants' use as a source of pharmaceuticals, according to Mr. Hendrick Verfaillie, President of Monsanto Co.