4 days ago
Integral begins final drug trials for prostate cancer, Alzheimer's
Noida -, Feb 14 - Integral Bio Sciences, a collaborative life sciences venture among scientists and investors from India and the US, has started the crucial 'phase four' trials of original drug discovery to treat prostate cancer and Alzheimer's disease.Joining a handful of companies like Ranbaxy, Dr. Reddy's, Nicolas Piramal and Dabur which are conducting research on original molecules in India, ...
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9 days ago
Riding to Green Games on a 'Soleckshaw'!
New Delhi, Feb 9 - Here come the 'Soleckshaws'. Thousands of athletes and officials taking part in the Commonwealth Games here this year will get to travel in solar rickshaws - a zero carbon vehicle.'We are introducing a fleet of 1,000 Soleckshaws - for the Commonwealth Games players,' Rajesh Kumar, a senior scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research -, told IANS. 'These Soleck ...
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18 days ago
Delhi to host India's first 'Newseum'
New Delhi, Jan 31 - Delhi will have the country's first museum on news - Newseum!'This is a first of its kind initiative. It is a unique idea. The Newseum, as we are calling it, will be on display from Monday,' Banwari Lal, director of the Delhi Public Library -, told IANS. The initiative is part of the DPL's 60th year of existence and it has been painstakingly carved out of several libraries unde ...
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25 days ago
Jamia to implement OBC quota in phased manner
New Delhi, Jan 24 - Three years after the government asked higher educational institutions to implement a 27 percent quota for other backward class - students, Jamia Millia Islamia is set to implement it in a phased manner and is putting in place the required infrastructure to accomodate the additional student burden it entails.
'This is a misconception that there is disagreement between the uni ...
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6 months ago
'Delhi's plight because of bad planning'
New Delhi, July 30 - As the national capital continues to cope with the after-effects of heavy showers and civic mismanagement, the National Disaster Management Authority - says five decades of bad planning were responsible for a city of 17 million people coming to a virtual standstill on that rained out Monday three days ago. And it says it was high time that the buck stopped somewhere.
Advocat ...
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6 months ago
50 years of bad planning led to Delhi deluge, says NDMA
New Delhi, July 30 - As the national capital continues to cope with the after-effects of heavy showers with some places still waterlogged, the National Disaster Management Authority - says five decades of bad planning were responsible for Delhi coming to a virtual standstill on that rained out Monday three days ago.
Advocating that responsibility be fixed on authorities, the nodal agency for man ...
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6 months ago
Like poultry, swine flu buffer zone for human soon
New Delhi, July 24 - With the number of confirmed swine flu cases on the rise, India plans to soon stop mass testing and create buffer zones for human clusters infected by the influenza A - virus to curb its spread -- the way it was done for poultry during the bird flu outbreak.
'You must have marked the growing number cases in India. The influenza-A situation is going to worsen in near future. ...
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7 months ago
Hilary Clinton to observe 'direct seeding' of paddy
New Delhi, July 17 - Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State who arrives here Sunday, will tour the Indian Agricultural Research Institute - to observe the direct seeding method for paddy cultivation among farmers.
'We dont know why but Clinton is interested in one technology - the direct seeding methodology for paddy cultivation,' said a senior official of the Indian Council of Agricultural Rese ...
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7 months ago
Beaten in school, student makes film on corporal punishment
New Delhi, July 16 - Beaten mercilessly several times, Samuel Venkatesen from Tamil Nadu has made a short movie on corporal punishment which he feels will help sensitise teachers.
'I want corporal punishment to stop. I have gone through it and don't want my fellow students across the country to face it,' said Venkatesen, 17, from Shoolagiri village in Krishnagiri district.
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7 months ago
Beaten in school, student makes film on corporal punishment
New Delhi, July 16 - Beaten mercilessly several times, Samuel Venkatesen from Tamil Nadu has made a short movie on corporal punishment which he feels will help sensitise teachers.
'I want corporal punishment to stop. I have gone through it and don't want my fellow students across the country to face it,' said Venkatesen, 17, from Shoolagiri village in Krishnagiri district.
Holding a Panasonic m ...
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