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UNAVOIDABLE, FOR A WHILE, IN BIHAR
IT MUST APPEAR odd that any State can be brought under President's Rule by political consensus. That events have raced towards such a denouement in post-election Bihar is thanks to another seeming contradiction: the reluctance of the State's ...

CORD BLOOD BANKING
SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER the first successful transplantation of stem cells harvested from the umbilical cord, the use of cord blood as a viable alternative to bone marrow as a source of stem cells is gaining importance. The cord blood that remains ...

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Oil a tool to achieve equality: Chavez
By Parvathi Menon

"Mr. President, what is the secret of your energy," asked a journalist at the end of a long press conference in Bangalore, the last public engagement addressed by the charismatic Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez , on his recent India ...

Vanishing wetlands
By G. Ananthakrishnan

India's wetlands are in danger of disappearing unless urgent action is taken.

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