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A new drug will reduce the agony and the costs of treating thalassaemia, a hereditary blood disorder

IT IS time for European farmers to clean up their backyards: the European Community has launched in London its first environmental audit for farms. The brainchild of Linking Environment and Farming

* User agencies (read industries) will have the right to take up plantation on forest land and to get a stipulated proportion of the produce. br> * Funds for plantation will come from the user

Recently developed hybrid true potato seeds are ideally suited to subtropical climates and are highly disease resistant

Differential metering of peak and low load consumption might jolt the power sector out of the red

Scientists have devised a new technique to make drugs resembling proteins more effective

TANZANIA will be invaded by red locusts if preventive measures are not taken on a war footing. The country's agriculture minister, Jackson Makwetta, says large colonies of locusts were spotted in the

The setting up of a high-powered Himalayan Development Authority has run into rough weather. A committee headed by Planning Commission member S Z Qasim, set up in March 1992 to address the problems

Altering the structure of peptides can fashion them into loyal and hard to beat soldiers of the body's immune syustem