Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Published on Thursdays
Online edition of India's National Newspaper Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
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Have liver, will donate Mixed advice on alcohol The case for alcohol is based on findings that moderate drinkers are at lower risk of heart disease than either abstainers or heavy imbibers. Journal 'pulled' cancer-row story SCIENTISTS HAVE voted to boycott an international reputed journal after its owners blocked the publication of a paper claiming that large numbers of IBM workers have died prematurely of cancers and other diseases. The development is ... Printable silicon for ultra-high performance flexible electronic systems SCIENTISTS AT the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a route to ultrahigh performance, mechanically flexible thin-film transistors by carving specks of single crystal silicon from a bulk wafer and casting them onto ... IT TRENDS 
Birth of a 'knowledge e-conomy'In May, Singapore became the first nation to deploy radio identification technology in libraries. Anand Parthasarathy reports on this creative use of technology to touch the lives of lay citizens. Kick-starting IT... ALMOST INVISIBLE in the background of initiatives like the Singapore National Library Board's foray into electronic management of holdings, is the agency charged with kick-starting the island-state's Information Technology initiatives in the ... Benefits of stopping smoking proved THE WORLD'S most extensive survey into the effects of smoking proved last week that even smokers who quit in their fifties will dramatically cut their chances of dying from their habit. The findings will challenge the widely held view among ... Neem vermicompost fertilizer A TECHNOLOGY, which may enable farmers to use the leaves of neem (Azadirachta indica), as a fertilizer as well as a pesticide has been developed at the Centre for Pollution Control & Energy Technology, Pondicherry University. The ... Animal feed from water hyacinth Water hyacinth contains nutrients essential for animals but making a palatable feed from them is not easy because of the high moisture.
Coconut-pith compost ANSWER: You may contact the Director of Research, TamilNadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003 for more details. | ||