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DNA Directory Under Construction For Indian Criminals !

...as evidence is ready and is likely to be tabled in parliament this year. The first draft of the bill is being circulated among ministries of law, home affairs and science. The final draft will be presented to the cabinet before it is tabled in the parliament. If passed, the bill will allow one to store, retr...

Harsh British Winter Could Kill Upto 90,000 Pensioners

...fice has issued its second severe weather warning, parliament debated the rising price of gas - essential to warm homes - while some experts feared a breakdown in electricity supplies during the winter. Charity organisations caring for the elderly warned that as many as 89,000 pensioners will die in the cold. ...

Operation: Protect India and Mother Earth

...e team would also undertake a protest march to the parliament if required. Greenpeace volunteers have15,000 postcards in their kitty which will be sent to the Environment minister, A. Raja. They are nursing an ambition of submitting 50,000 post cards before Feb 20th. The Supreme Court is abreast of this matt...

Poultry Industry In India Suffers A Set Back

...cken is still excluded from the food served in the parliament canteen and other major commercial operations like airlines. 'It is baffling that while politicians are saying that it is safe to eat well-cooked chicken, it is not on the menu of parliament's canteen. This is sending wrong signals,' industry offic...

Bahamas says flamingo deaths are not due to bird-flu

...sibility of an outbreak and in a statement to the parliament said, “That is something that the Ministry of Tourism can now take and communicate worldwide, but we will continue to work toward making absolutely certain that the preliminary findings at the site are incontrovertibly correct." Bahamian officials ...

Papua New Guinea MP To Face Trial For Spreading HIV

A member of the parliament belonging to the Papua New Guinea parliament is to face the trial for knowingly infecting others with HIV virus//. He will be the first person in...

Swearing-in Of Girija Prasad Koirala Postponed Due To Ill Health

...yanhity palace at 11 a.m. Friday, two hours before parliament convenes after four long years. However, the frail leader, who had been suffering from severe respiratory problems and been on oxygen and saline Thursday, was advised rest by his physicians. Krishna Sitaula, spokesperson of Koirala's Nepali Congr...

First time mothers are older now

... aged 45 to 49 only 106 live births were seen. The parliament passed laws about fertility treatment but did not mention anything about age limit for IVF treatment. So the doctors had to decide the welfare of any child born to older mother. They should bear in mind that older mothers are at increased risk of str...

Iran Bans Smoking In Public Places

The Iranian parliament Wednesday approved a bill prohibiting smoking in public places, IRNA reported.// The bill prohibits smoking in public groups, restaurants and even in private cars providing for a minimum fine of $12.5. It also restricts selling of cigarettes to an...

Scottish Hospitals Have 1000 Alcohol-Related Cases Each Week

...roblems. // The report, which was available in the parliament yesterday, showed that "51,599 people were discharged from a general acute hospital last year." This was indeed a massive jump when compared with just 13,890 a decade and a half ago. "The problem is growing at an alarming rate, so we need action now ...

Arjun Singh Softens Stand on Quota But says Reservation Irrevocable

... remains irrevocable.// Arjun Singh said in the parliament "There is no question of going back on what we hav...f BJP. If the reservation issue goes through the parliament it will ensure that nearly half the seats in top educational institutes of the country would be re...

Importance of Retroviral Drugs Underestimated

...ishment. The minister insisted to the country's parliament that traditional medicine is the only alternative to ARVs. Statistics show that AIDS epidemic claims about 900 lives everyday but using her techniques which are untested would prove dangerous. She declared that traditional medicine along with pr...

Death Sentence for Intenional Infection of Minors with HIV

The Ugandan government has proposed a bill before parliament seeking death sentences for AIDS sufferers who intentionally infect minors//. The Ugandan government has been internationally hailed for its success to bring down the AIDS prevalence from over 20 percent in 1990's to 6 percent in the last few years. ...

AIIMS Strike Enters Second day, Support Continues To Pour In

...itute of Medical Sciences Bill’, She addressed the parliament on her dream venture stating, “An institute of this nature in India which would enable our young men and women to have their own post-graduate education in their own country, in their background with the necessary experience that we would all like to...

HIV /AIDS testing center at Malawi's parliament.

Malawi's parliament has enabled a testing center for HIV/AIDS so that their staff, MPs and ministers can avail the services //at the start of the national testing and counseling week, scheduled to begin next week with the theme "Plan for your future, go for HIV test tod...

New Guidelines to Be Laid While Testing Experimental Drugs

...d that new guidelines are being recommended to the parliament for testing new drugs. German drug maker TeGenero AG, which produced TGN1412, filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this month....

March towards Free Pneumococcal Vaccine

...pporters marched in silent protest on Wednesday on parliament to push// politicians towards funding a vaccine fo...th a letter and placed 150 dolls on the grounds of parliament to represent the young children who would catch the disease this year. March organiser Fiona Colb...

Japan's Support for Polio Eradication in India

...immunisation (IIPI) campaign// in India this year, parliament was informed Wednesday. Answering a question, Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told the Lok Sabha: 'The grant will be utilised for procurement of vaccine through UNICEF to be used during the pulse polio rounds for West Bengal an...

Yoga to De-stress Indian Army Soldiers

...on in the defence sector" tabled in both houses of parliament Wednesday. It recommended that the strength of the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) be raised "in proportion to its increased workload and responsibility" and that the Pune-based AFMC Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) be converted into a deem...

Malarial Deaths on Rise in Assam

...d so far this year - a new record in recent years, parliament was told Friday.// Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha that Assam is endemic for malaria. Nearly 690 people had died during the last six years starting 2001 with 47,29,65 cases...

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