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Now, bee attack grounds Alliance Air plane for 1 hour
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad [India], August 1 (ANI): Air India's subsidiary airlines Alliance Air faced pest control trouble last week.
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Bed bug scare looms large for hotel, lodging industry
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 15 (ANI): According to a recent study, most business and leisure travellers in the United States can't identify a bed bug, and yet the tiny pest evokes a stronger response in hotel guests than any other potential room deficiency, putting the hospitality indust
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Pesticide exposure speeds up puberty in boys
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA]. April 2 (ANI): Chinese researchers have warned environmental exposure to pesticides that kill mosquitoes, insects and sprayed on crops, may cause boys to reach sexual maturity early at the age of nine.
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Strawberry lovers...all is not well with your favorite fruit
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], Mar. 12 (ANI): Strawberries are easily one of the most popular fruits across the globe and its flavor gives chocolate a tough competition in the dessert spectrum making it a world-wide favorite, however, a recent report has found that the red fruit tops in the list of produc
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Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. recommends sale of majority stake of
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 8 (ANI-NewsVoir): Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. advised in relation to sale of 57 percent stake of the pest control products and services business of Pest Control (India) Private Limited to a subsidiary of Rentokil Initial Plc.
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Scientists discover 'BioClay' for pest-free crops
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan. 11 (ANI): Scientists, including an Indian-origin researcher, have found a nano-sized degradable clay, an alternative to chemicals and pesticides, that protects plants from specific disease-causing pathogens.
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Educating about bed bugs promote awareness, prevention in schools
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 13 (ANI): Educating teachers and students about bed bugs, parasitic insects that feed exclusively on blood, can be a powerful tool to deal with spread of pests.
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32nd anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy being observed
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India] Dec. 3 (ANI): Bhopal is observing 32nd anniversary of gas leak tragedy today as on the intervening night of December 2 and 3 in 1984, several hundred people were killed and scores of people were maimed for life when the Methyl Isocyanate gas was leaked from th
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Pesticide exposure leads to changes in oral microbiome: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov.14 (ANI): A recent study has found that pesticide exposure in farm workers from agricultural communities is linked with changes in the oral microbiome.
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New tactic to fight mosquitoes in more efficient and sustainable way
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Aug. 27 (ANI): A recent research shows that chemical substances emitted by one of the mosquito's natural enemies, the backswimmer bug make the biological pesticide Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) more deadly.
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India loses 15-25 pct potential crop output due to pests, weeds, diseases
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 20 (ANI): Chairman Standing Committee of Parliament on Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Hukmdev Narayan Yadav called for concerted efforts to forge an R and D-led strategy to save the loss of crops due to pests, weeds and diseases.
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