How true is Horlicks ad hype on boiled milk?

Experts say advertisement is misleading

Joint committee favours endosulfan exports

Cites lack of pesticide disposal facility

Drug trials: Irked NHRC issues notices to Centre and Andhra Pradesh government

Says respond else face action

Bytes

Lung cancer scars people affected by dust after 9/11

Kerala becomes second state to ban chewing tobacco

Those who violate ban may be fined up to Rs 5 lakh or imprisoned up to six years

Stem-cell research through

Organ transplantation act to regulate tissue transplantation too

 New Act expected to improve quality of treatment

SC bans endosulfan, for now

Committee to submit report on the pesticide's toxicity in eight weeks

Science and Technology - Briefs

Madhya Pradesh bans gutkha and other chewing tobacco products

Licences of two gutkha manufacturing companies were cancelled in March

New swine flu kit makes disease detection easier in India

Portable testing kit gives results within an hour

News 360°

Ban on stem cell patents which involve destroying human embryos

Researchers call it regressive step, ethicists happy

In Short

Letters

Stop passing the buck

How vulnerable are we to mental disorders?

Chidambaram visits Bhopal on June 5

Gas disaster victims say they would like to present actual injuries, death reports

Lalitpur’s baby formula

Programme to promote breastfeeding improves health of children under two

Letters

Letter

AIIMS Kalyani, to be inaugurated by PM Modi today, lacks environmental clearance: West Bengal Pollution Control Board

Roadblock with political purpose, inauguration to proceed, counters Union minister

If bird flu arrives, what will India do?

India is a hotbed not only of strange diseases but of stranger disease surveillance and control institutions. Every year, known and unknown …

Did the polio vaccine start AIDS?

The origin of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has generated considerable interest and controversy amongst scientists the world over. Flaming …