Chandigarh Administration Enhances Sugar Ration Supply For BPL Familes

"Chandigarh (Mera Chandigarh):- The Chandigarh Administration has decided to enhance the scale of issue of levy sugar from 1kg to 2kg per unit per month for the Below Poverty Line ration card holders for the month of October and November 2008 only due to ensuing festival season."

Over 50,000 Children Sick in China Tainted Milk Scandal

Numerous people have been arrested, the head of China's quality watchdog resigned and at least four children have died after tainted milk made its way into homes over the last few months. Tests have confirmed the...

Fourth Baby Dies As Milk Crisis Widens in China

A fourth baby is reported to have died in China's continuing and widening milk scandal. Tests found the chemical melamine in liquid milk produced by three of the country's leading dairy companies. Thousands of children have gotten ill from drinking the tainted milk. "A fourth...

Why the Financial Meltdown Reflects the Fundamental Failure of the Bush-McCai...

"The financial meltdown on Wall Street is more than a cyclic correction brought on by a mismanaged business cycle. It is emblematic of a problem at the very foundation of the right wing economic philosophy that...

Hunger in Africa blamed on western rejection of GM food

Environmentalists taking an anti-scientific stance to modern agriculture and in particular to GM crop use are causing hunger in Africa according to Sir David King - the UK government's former chief scientist. This...

Cloned Cows Used to Create Beef We Eat

Well, this is just disturbing. The United States Food and Drug administration just announced that farmers have been using cloned cows to mate and produce beef. Which we're eating. The farmers are producing cloned...

Isotope 'perfect storm' 5 Nuclear reactors shut down simultaneously, threaten...

Opinion Barry Artiste A world shortage of isotopes can have disasterous effects, not only for cancer patients, but research institutes that rely on isotopes for research, including cancer research. How to explain all...

Pole trek needs last explorer

"Descendants of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team are looking for a final budding explorer to complete their ancestors' journey to the South Pole. Legend has it Sir Ernest recruited his expedition members with an advert promising "small wages", "constant danger" and a...

BAE in £2bn MoD ammunition deal

"BAE Systems has signed a 15-year deal with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to supply the UK armed forces with small arms and medium-calibre ammunition. It also includes mortar bombs, tank, artillery and naval gun shells, but not weapons such as guided missiles. The contract...

Ralph Nader A Tale of a Candidate Between Two Giants

Ralph Nader A Tale of a Candidate Between Two Giants By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com & Iron Mill Interactive Media, incRalph Nader arrived at the State House, in Columbia, South Carolina, ...

Solar power from Saharan sun could provide Europe's electricity, says EU

"A tiny rectangle superimposed on the vast expanse of the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe's carbon emissions by harnessing the fierce power of the desert sun. Dwarfed by any...

UN Report Warns Nepal on Food Crisis

According to a report recently made public in Kathmandu by the United Nations World Food Program and the Nepal Development Research Council, about 5.6 million Nepalis are at food crisis risk. The report indicates that five million people in rural parts and six hundred...

The United States Gets a Run for its Money

It has long since been known that the United States was is the most powerful nation in the world. Although this may be true, there has been much talk about the nation's economy becoming unstable. If the enconomy...

Canada's spreading cannabis crop

"Canada's spreading cannabis crop In the first of two pieces on organised crime accompanying his Radio 4 series How crime took...

iPhone 3G Shortage: PR Stunt or controlled damage

"Nobody knows how to play with the media more than Apple does, even when a bad news can damage their profits Apple turns it into good news and generate more positive buzz than bad. Take for example the recently...

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