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- Famine hits people of Dhading district

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15/02/1998

People of the constituency No 1 in the remote areas of Dhading district are facing famine as the crops were lashed by hailstone when the farmers were about to harvest their crops recently.The people

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- 36 per cent patients suffer from depression, says study

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15/02/1998

The patient's complaint may be splitting headache, a bad back or a weak stomach . But the diagnosis in many such cases may well be depression . According to a new cross -sectional study, about 36 per

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Chinese drug effective against AIDS

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15/02/1998

Chinese scientists plan to conduct clinical research to determine the effectiveness of a new herbal compound for treating AIDS .

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- SA doctor ready to clone humans

A South African doctor and his team are ready to clone humans, and are applying to a local university's ethics committee for permission to go ahead with the procedure, reports here said on

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- India to get $13m grant for food, green projects

The Government on Saturday signed two agreements with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a $13.75 million grant on food security and environment support. The agreements, which would

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- Ipma offer to green degraded forestland

An unlikely environmentalist, the Indian Paper Makers Association (Ipma), has offered to reforest 2 million hectares of degraded forestlands. Responding to the latest official figures which show

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- TISCO receives 'RoE'

TATA Steel became the first corporate giant in Asia to receive the coveted 'Return of Environment' (RoE) award from Betzdearborn, a US-based organisation. The distinction put Tata with global majors

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Plantation firms gear up for battle

Major Plantation Companies are planning to fight against the finance ministry's crackdown on such firms. Irked by the intense official scrutiny, plantation firms are banding together to ask for a

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Manipur's Loktak lake to get ICEF funding

Manipur's bio-diversity rich Loktak lake comprising the Keibul Lamjao national park, the only floating park in the world , is all set to become the site for one of the biggest sustainable

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Quake wrecks havoc

an earthquake which recently rocked the Hebei province in northern China has left nearly 11,440 people injured and 44,000 homeless. Economic losses from the quake have been estimated at

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14/02/1998
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