First Open-heart Surgery Performed in Agra

Agra's first open-heart surgery was successfully carried out Sunday at the Apollo //Hospital. Dr Pankaj Mahendru, director of the hospital, said it was a big day for the city of the Taj Mahal. "The surgery, which cost only Rs.100,000, was carried out by Dr Nandan Das Baba and Dr Bhavna S...

Global Homoeopathy Conference Underway in Agra

An international homeopathy conference is taking place in this Taj Mahal city, attended by over 80 delegates from India and eight countries.// The four-day meet, which began Wednesday, will focus on critical areas like cancer, AIDS and "other difficult subjects which have proved a challenge t...

Treating Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension In Children With Viagra

After revolutionizing the treatment of male impotence latest research shows that Viagra //(sildenafil) may also help children with a fatal lung disease walk further and breathe easier. Children diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension ( PAH) a condition in which blood pressure is extremely hi...

Treating Altitude Sickness With Viagra

Sildenafil, the drug more commonly known as Viagra, may help with more than just sexual problems. Researchers say // it can also ease the symptoms of altitude sickness. The finding could be significant because in severe cases, altitude sickness can cause dangerously high pulmonary arterial pressure...

UNT Health Science Center Appoints Eight New Faculty Members

...as awarded a doctorate in biochemistry, a Master of Science in organic chemistry, and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, zoology and botany, all from agra University in India. Sushma Yadav, a member of Sanjay Awasthi's team, has been added as an assistant professor of molecular biology and immunology...

Taj Mahal is Enveloped by Pollution and a Foul Smell

... monument. Sugam Anand, a historian with agra University, says the Taj needs corrective treatmen...anese science teacher, says that the Taj Mahal and agra city provided two striking contrasts. "The Taj Mahal is very beautiful, but agra city is dirty and the Yamuna is dirty also," Hiros...

Now the Blind can hear What They Cant See or Read

...that can be heard through earphones. Right now it can only read text, but later it is likely to pick up prints in Braille script. The agra College team that took six months to develop the device and the software to go with it was led by R.K. Sharma and included his assistants Karan, Mayan...

Green Campaigners Concerned About Yamuna's Shrinking Floodplains

...t Yamnotri. It flows through the states of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, and merges with the Ganges at Allahabad. The cities of Delhi, Mathura and agra lie on its banks. Said Nitya Jacobs, a writer who has researched water issues in India: "Yamuna's floodplains are being converted into malls a...

UP Plans to Plant Ten Million Saplings on a Single Day

... on July 31. According to V.N. Garg, principal secretary of the forest department, 850,000 saplings would be planted in the seven districts of agra division alone. Forest department officials here said efforts were on to mobilize support services for such large-scale greening effort. ...

Now the Blind can ‘hear’ What They Can’t See or Rad

...ice that can be heard through earphones. Right now it can only read text, but later it is likely to pick up prints in Braille script. The agra College team that took six months to develop the device and the software to go with it was led by R.K. Sharma and included his assistants Karan, Mayan...

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Agra in Biological News

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa commits 180M to revive farmers' depleted soils

...al situation, Ngongi said. This initiative by agra is timely and will help to greatly advance Africas...le soil fertility interventions, Adesina said. agra will give special attention to women farmers, who ...or of the United Nations Environment Programme, an agra Soil Health Program partner. In addition to wor...

Agra in Biological Technology

Ethanol plant builder to expand Merrill facility

... local headquarters to help the state get a larger piece of the action. agra Industries, Inc ., which was founded upon the acquisition of the agricultur...es in five Wisconsin communities, is scheduled to begin construction on the agra Industries addition early next month. Completion is expected by year's end....

A Midwest passage to India, Part II

...art of the trip took me to Delhi (both New and Old), the ancient capitol of agra (home to the Taj Mahal among other things). We then moved on to Mumbai (Bom...-1/2 hours to navigate about 100 miles from Delhi to the ancient capitol of agra (home of the Taj Mahal) on a four-lane road, which was filled to with motor...