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| HIV I, II kits to be manufactured in India NEW DELHI, Mar 10: The western blot diagnostic kit, used for checking HIV status,.......more Several
minerals found VADODARA, Mar 10: Several minerals have been found in the ‘ooze’ that poured out....more Prisoners
donate JAGDALPUR (CHHATTISGARH), Mar 10: Bastar Central Jail prisoners have presented a cheque...more Bail of
prime MUMBAI, Mar 10: A TADA Court has extended until March 20 the interim bail of Mohammed....more Provide
information regarding losses in RAJKOT, Mar 10: Gujarat Government has .....more |
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Neo-regionalism to benefit India, its neighbours KOLKATA, Mar 10: India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal could benefit immensely if the concept of neo-regionalism was accepted and implemented....more Situation in Maha fully under control; security beefed up MUMBAI, Mar 10: Security was beefed up today in Maharashtra where the situation was stated to be "fully under control" after yesterday’s incidents of .....more
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challenges GUNA, Mar 10: GUNA, Mar 10: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh today challenged the constitutional validity of the BALCO deal and said no village committee was consulted . ....more |
HIV I, II kits to be manufactured in India NEW DELHI, Mar 10: The western blot diagnostic kit, used for checking HIV status, will now be manufactured in the country with technology developed by the Mumbai Cancer Research Institute. HIV I and HIV II kits were being made available by the WHO for the past three years. The western blot kit is widely accepted supplemental assay for confirming suspected HIV cases. The Department of Biotechnology has licenced a Delhi-based company for starting commercial production of the kit. This would not only make its availability in the country a lot easier but also save foreign exchange. The kit had been developed from an Indian strain of HIV virus and was also user-friendly and suited to all types of laboratories, blood banks with limited capacities, a company source said. In the western block assay, the test strip is reacted with the patient serum/plasma diluted in the buffer. Antibodies to HIV I and HIV II if present bind to viran antigens coated on the strip while the unbound material is washed off. The strip is incubated with anti-human IGG conjugate and then with a colouring agent. The sample, if positive, visible bands develop on the strip while no such visible band appear if it is negative. Union Health Minister C P Thakur is expcted to be present at the launch of first indigenous detection kit. Minister of State for Science and Technology B S Rawat will declare open the manufacturing on March 12. (UNI) |
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Several minerals found in ‘ooze’ after quake VADODARA, Mar 10: Several minerals have been found in the ‘ooze’ that poured out from and cracks craters formed after the January 26 quake in the Kutch region of Gujarat, the Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre for Applied Research and Testing (SICART) has said. Dr G P Das, Director, SICART, said sodium cloride, silica, magnesium, aluminium, iron, pottasium, sulphur, calcium carbonate, pottasium sulphate and other minerals were found in the ‘ooze’ brought from Bhadiyar village of Khawada Taluka in Kutch district, after testing it through the electro spectrometers. Experts have also confirmed existence of minerals from the graphics of the earthquake region of Rann of Kutch, Dr Das said. Further research on them could greatly help the nation, he added. Dr Subhash Jani, who brought the ‘ooze’ from Khawada for laboratory testing said, the first earthquake took place near the Khawada village, about 60 km away from Bhuj near the Pakistan border, where cracks occured and ‘ooze’ came out for the first time. Sicart, built at the cost of Rs 100 crore, is the only institute in the country which has eight types of instruments to test microscopic elements. (UNI) |
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Prisoners donate Rs 50000 for quake victims JAGDALPUR (CHHATTISGARH), Mar 10: Bastar Central Jail prisoners have presented a cheque of Rs 50000 for the quake hit people of Gujarat. The cheque was handed over to the District Collector on March eight. Prisoner Channu, who initiated the idea, said he was very much perturbed after watching on television the devastation caused by the natural calamity and made up his mind along with his fellow inmates to help the victims. Most of the prisoners here are serving life imprisonment and are sentenced for murder and other heinous crimes. (UNI) |
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Situation in Maha fully under control; security beefed up MUMBAI, Mar 10: Security was beefed up today in Maharashtra where the situation was stated to be "fully under control" after yesterday’s incidents of sporadic violence following rumours of burning of the Holy Quran in Delhi, as 30 people were arrested in Pune. "There are no reports of any untoward incident from any part of the state and the cities that witnessed trouble yesterday," Maharashtra Minister of State for Home Kripashankar Singh told PTI today. Singh said he reviewed the "law and order situation" in the state last night and again early this morning at a meeting with top police officials. Top police officials personally supervised the situation in sensitive parts of the metropolis where mobile patrolling has been intensified, he said. Police had fired in the air and lobbed teargas shells yesterday to disperse a mob in Aurangabad, and about 20 cops were injured in stone pelting in Pune, Parbhani and Nanded as rumours spread like wild fire leading to tension in the metropolis also. Police arrested about 30 people today in Pune in connection with ransacking of a Police Chowki at Ghorpadepeth area yesterday. Five cases of rioting and damaging public property were also registered in Pune. (PTI) |
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Digvijay challenges validity of BALCO deal GUNA, Mar 10: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh today challenged the constitutional validity of the BALCO deal and said no village committee was consulted over the disinvestment issue. ‘It was necessary under the constitutional amendment of 1997 introducing the panchayati raj in the state to have a consent from the Gram Sabhas of the scheduled areas where the plant is located but the centre decided to hand it over to private management without even seeking their opinion’, Singh told reporters at ‘Raghogarh Fort’, about 40 kms from here. Singh rejected the statement by Union Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie that several rounds of discussions were held with the State Government before reaching the deal saying, ‘the Centre has never consulted the State Government on the deal relating to the plant (which was part of Madhya Pradesh before Chhattisgarh was formed) Singh further said that only once a communique from an ‘officer’ of the Centre was received by the state Chief Secretary seeking ‘security’ for a delegation concerning disinvestment during its visit to the plant. Admitting that the disinvestment policy was product of the Congress regime, Singh said ‘however, we are for safeguarding interests of the workers as well as maintaining transparency in the agreement’. He said that his Government would not cancel lease of any public sector undertaking of the centre in Madhya Pradesh which are under disinvestment process. Singh said a review of the entire BALCO deal became more necessary especially after the charge levelled by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi that a person in the Prime Minister’s office had received Rs 100 crore to get the deal through. ‘Since Jogi has levelled such a serious charge, he must have evidence to substantiate it’, Singh added. (PTI) |
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