Apr 10 2008
The US Food and Drug Administration released an update yesterday, 8th April, showing a dramatic rise in the number of deaths that may be due to patients having allergic reactions to contaminated heparin. The agency puts the new figure at 62 deaths in...
Apr 10 2008
Surgeons at the The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, have carried out the first simultaneous six-way kidney transplant operation involving six donors and six recipients that were paired using a “domino” system that relies...
Apr 10 2008
Scientists in the US have discovered that proteins in alligator blood could be a powerful source of antibiotics for use against superbugs that are resistant to conventional drugs, and for treating serious infections and burns. The discovery was...
Apr 10 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bush administration has proposed allowing oil and gas drilling in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world’s most endangered whale. The proposal opening up 5.6 million acres off the...
Apr 10 2008
You might not think it, to look at these cuddly pictures, but the prospect of a polar bear “war” was looming large over Germany yesterday. Flocke, a recently born cub who caught the public imagination by being rejected by parents and raised...
Apr 10 2008
United Nations, April 09: India has sought an “unequivocal commitment” from all nuclear-weapon states to prohibit development, production and stockpiling of nuclear weapons for their non-discriminatory and verifiable elimination within a...
Apr 10 2008
New Delhi, April 09: Eight months after registering a case against a former senior officer of the Research and Analysis Wing, the CBI on Wednesday filed a chargesheet against him for divulging “top secret” information in his book which...
Apr 10 2008
New Delhi, April 09: The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has said there is a strong case for according Scheduled Caste status to Dalit Muslims and Christians leading to their being included in the ambit of reservations. A study conducted by...
Apr 10 2008
Bangalore, April 09: Anxious to prevent spiralling price from marring its prospects in Karnataka assembly polls, Congress on Wednesday came out with a populist election manifesto promising rice at Rs two a kg, loans for farmers and others at three per...
Apr 10 2008
Mumbai, April 09: After attacking North Indians in general and Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan in particular, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has now taken on private firms operating in the Western state. It has demanded 80% job...