Residents of all municipalities in West Bengal will have to pay for the water they are supplied, the state public health engineering minister said today. In Calcutta-- the only place in the state
Physicians are worried that residents of Mae Moh district in Lampang (Thailand) may have taken too much of the medicine given them to relieve ailments caused by air pollution emitted by the
The South Korean government plans to build about 30 midsized multipurpose dams across the country by the year 2011 to more effectively cope with future downpours as well as secure stable supply of
Floods, notwithstanding, the Chinese have available, per person, only about a fifth of the world average supply of water. In the vast northern and north-western regions of Inner Mongolia, Shanxi,
An experimental pill appears to reduce a typical four-day bout of the flu by about a day and a half while making patients feel better, too, researchers said. It is one of the two closely related
A genetics pioneer Dr W. French Anderson wants to try gene therapy on foetuses in hopes of curing them of deadly diseases before they're ever born. But first he's asking scientists and ethicists to
Anortheastern biologist has discovered a new species of freshwater crustacean which is expected to have commercial potential. Streptocephalus sirindhornae or sirindhorn fairy shrimp was found by
Maori Affairs Minister Tau Henare can sack Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries commissioners, but the commission will have little room to do things differently, says its chairman Sir Tipene O'Regan. The
The Delhi assembtly passed a Bill on Friday to regulate and strengthen Indian systems of medicine. The " Delhi Bharatiya Chikitsa Parishad Bill-1998", its objective is to establish a Council for
Ants that have grown their own fungus farms for 50 million years could ofer valuable insights to human farmers, researchers have said. They said they found that ants regularly swap seed crops of
