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India to Have 30 World-class Universities Across the Country: PM

...l establish 30 world-class universities across the country that would become "launch pads" for the country's ...valuation systems." He said 340 districts in the country had extremely low college enrolments and assured that the central government would work with these s...

Madhya Pradesh Bans Use of Vibrating Condoms

...x Limited (HLL) introduced the item throughout the country about three months ago. Protesting its launch, Hindu hardliners described the condom was a sex toy going against Indian ethics. Responding to the protest, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) banned the product. "We are against anything tha...

Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers

...of social services -- and family structure -- in a country gripped by war. "Iraq has never been a more difficult and dangerous place to be a child," according to the UN children's agency (UNICEF), whose website gives a litany of problems including: a serious decline in immunizations, signs of stunted growth...

Insecurity Jepardising WFP Initiatives in Western Afghanistan

...rts of Afghanistan , especially in the west of the country where food stocks are running short and thousands of the most vulnerable people may soon see critical food supplies curtailed or interrupted. "WFP has been unable to move food to the western region of Afghanistan for four weeks due to insecurity. U...

Egyptian Boy Has Bird Flu

...ving quarters have led to it being the hardest-hit country outside of Asia. Women and children have borne the brunt of the virus due to their role in taking care of domestic fowl. The government says it is conducting a vigorous campaign to combat the spread of the virus through vaccinations and raising awa...

South Asians Seek Bone Marrow for Young Indian American

...f the cheek. Donor drives are happening across the country this weekend including, Boston, Chicago, Charlotte, Irvine, New York City and Sunnyvale. Only 1 percent (or 60,000) of the 6 million people registered in the National Marrow Donor Programme are South Asian. A Caucasian has a 1 in 15 chance of findi...

Chinese City Turns Off the Air-con

...ork in China's largest city and other parts of the country lags behind the surge in demand. The Chinese government set a goal of reducing energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product by 20 percent by 2010, but failed miserably in 2006, the first year of implementation....

Chronic Metamphetamine Abuse is Related to Cardiovascular Disease

...se has expanded rapidly throughout the rest of the country and across different ethnic groups. In recent years, the spread of methamphetamine abuse across the United States has been as rapid as it has been alarming. According to the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an estimated 10.4 mi...

Organic Farms Provide a Clue for India's Struggling Farms

...ave gone up, wheat reserves fell last year and the country was forced to import the commodity for the first time in six years. But Sud said that with huge foreign reserves thanks to 15 years of a booming economy that is now growing at more than nine percent per year, food security can be managed. 'The go...

This 'Grass' is Not Green - Say, 'No Thanks, I Am Fine Without Drugs'

... India Takes Stock India happens to be the only country cultivating opium for medical and scientific use. Despite strict regulation, some amount gets into the illicit route. Drug abuse is also becoming a problem at call centers and college campuses. The key challenge to curbing drug abuse in India hove...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

... from the very first moment because it is the only country which has integrated genetics to the health program and has obtained concrete results. There was a stir among delegates to when copies of the Cuban Review of Communitary Genetics were distributed. Director of the National Institute of Medical Genet...

Greek Heatwave Kills Two

... Minister Dimitris Sioufas. Hospitals around the country have been placed on alert and municipalities are keeping cooled public facilities open for those without air-conditioning at home, but heatstroke already claimed the lives of an 84-year-old woman in the western town of Egio and a 76-year-old man in F...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...ne million of the 250 million tobacco users in the country die every year. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there will be more than ten million deaths a year due to oral cancer in the next thirty years with 70 percent of those occurring in developing countries like India....

Kenya Says HIV/AIDS Rate Drops to 5.9 Percent

...yed a large part in slashing new infections. The country aims to reduce the rate of infections to 5.5 by 2010. Officials said awareness campaigns have succeeded in reducing Kenya's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate from 10 percent in the late 1990s, with condom use rising and a decline in the average number of se...

Toll Free National Drug Helpline Launched

...Kendra Sangathan, the largest youth network in the country and field communicators of Directorate of Field Publicity. She also said that the issue of drugs needs to be addressed frontally and comprehensively. The Ministry has initiated a number of programmes to contain the menace of drugs. We are supporting ...

Girls Feet Severed in Amusement Park Accident

...tter would like to acknowledge everyone across the country that have been supporting their daughter with many positive thoughts and prayers over the last six days," according to a statement, issued by the family. Authorities and the hospital have declined to say whether her feet were reattached. The state...

Travelers Beware: Is Your Medicine Really What the Doctor Ordered?

...rs should not assume that a branded product in one country is the same as a product with the same or similar ... misinterpret the drug the patient needs, if their country uses that same or similar brand name for a different drug. Researchers are advocating for the crea...

Tibetans to Introduce Organic Farming

...ng with their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. No country recognizes the Tibetan government-in-exile here....

Human Trafficking Booming in Eastern Europe, but Governments Dont Seem to Care

...lic of Moldova (formerly Moldavia) is a landlocked country of hilly plains lying west of the Carpathian Mount... between the Prut and Dniester (Dnestr) Rivers.The country is sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine. Chiinu (formerly Kishinev) is its capital and largest ci...

Britain is Now Europe's Cocaine Capital

... over 900,000 Britons buy cocaine, which means the country has overtaken Spain as the biggest user in the con...350,000 heroin users are the largest number in any country in Europe. The annual survey from the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime also said that successful la...

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