Hot water; hotter tempers
On April 10, a hot sunny day, Chennai’s Chepauk stadium became a fortress. Yellow barricades, armed policemen and security vans surrounded the venue. The Indian Premier League was in town, and the Chennai
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Early shot
It will not be long before girls are vaccinated against cervical cancer. The first shot against cervical cancer was fired six decades ago when Dr George Papanicolau developed the Pap smear for
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Fountains of death
Hospitals in West Bengal have had 5,000 cases of arsenicosis in the last two decades. Studies and surveys have detected arsenic in the ground water in 3,365 habitations spread over 68 village blocks
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Seeds of wrath
While Monsanto's pest-resistant seeds could trigger a food revolution in the country, fears of monopoly and health hazards trigger a wave of protest against the
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Hospital junkyard
India has become a dumping ground for low-tech medical devices from the US. And even some third world countries, which have no manufacturing facility, are unloading repacked substandard items
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- WHO slashes aid
A proposal approved by the WHO Executive Board has envisaged a cut in allocation of funds to India by $5 million. It would now be less than $10
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The first known earthquake
The first quake took place at the end of the first stage of the Harappan civilisation, around 2900 BC. The second was during the Mature phase, around 2600 BC, but one is not sure when the third took
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Wired villages
Murugappa Group of Chennai is setting up indiagriline, an agricultural portal, which aims to be 'the best known channel for rural information and
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River reborn
The 15-m stretch of the Chalior once again teems with fishermen, women scooping up shell fish and labourers extracting sand. The river flowing through Kozhikode and Malappuram was considered the most
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Shot in the dark?
Vaccines seem to have become as much a terror as the diseases they prevent. On March 3, less than half of the targeted 46 lakh children under 5 years turned up for anti polio doses in Assam. Just as
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Tied in knots
Wildlife measures force men to remain bachelors in Jhalar village of Madhya Pradesh. Forest officials harass people who come here, guest are not allowed to visit this village after sunset and