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Science & Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2010
FORENSIC SCIENCES
Whodunit
The bacteria that feed on a murderer’s skin could now be as incriminating as blood and semen. Biologists in the US have developed a technology that helps isolate the DNA from bacteria left on surfaces such as computer key boards and compare it with the genetic material from bacteria on hands. These bacteria lingered on the keyboard surface for nearly two weeks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 15, 2010 (online)
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2009
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No identity crisis
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2008
Indian red jungle fowl are genetically pure
Bird flu hits West Bengal again
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2008
Nearly a month after four million birds culled, a fresh outbreak of avian influenza hit West Bengal's Murshidabad district early last month. The reappearance of the virus (see 'Cockpit', Down To Earth, February 29, 2008) in the district's Jiaganj and Raghunathganj-II blocks had the government scrambling for excuses and state animal husbandry minister Anisur Rahman chewing a chicken tangri before the media in a bid to stem further losses in the poultry industry.
Bangladesh backyard poultry hit by bird flu
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2008
bird flu is spreading in Bangladesh despite efforts to control it. By February 19, the H5NI virus outbreaks had been reported in 43 out of 64 districts. The nation's poultry industry, one of the world's largest, is now confronted with its greatest challenge since large-scale poultry farming was introduced in the 1980s.
A bird flu over the commie nest
Issue Date: Feb 29, 2008
ABHIJIT VINAYAK BANERJEE
Poultry trade down with bird flu
Issue Date: Feb 29, 2008
Bird flu has hit hard India's Rs 36,000-crore poultry industry, already smarting under a steep rise in essential feed prices. Although the flu is restricted to West Bengal, crashing wholesale prices and ban on exports, internal and external, are affecting the industry across the country. The losses are still being assessed. India is estimated to produce about six million broilers per day.
South Asia
Issue Date: Feb 29, 2008
baglihar inspection: Pakistan has said that it will inspect the Baglihar dam before it
becomes operational. Spokesperson of Pakistan's foreign office, Mohammad Sadiq, said on January 30 that the Indus Basin
Treaty Commissioner for Pakistan has contacted his Indian counterpart for this purpose and will see if India has complied
with the World Bank neutral expert's verdict regarding the power project's design. The neutral expert had asked India to
Counting chickens
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2008
the official response to the avian flu outbreak in West Bengal, now threatening to assume epidemic proportions, is a story of hubris underlined by pathetic bungling on the ground. Not long ago--in December last year, to be exact--New Delhi unveiled its plans for containing pandemics at an international conference. Amid much self-congratulation, the health minister declared on the basis of what had been achieved by then that India had actually surpassed global standards.
