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They will be widespread and unpredictable. By Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi An outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda last month. There is no treatment and no vaccine against Ebola, which is transmitted by close personal contact and, depending on the strain, kills up to 90 per cent of those who contract the virus. In recent years, Uganda has been hit with three Ebola outbreaks, the worst of which was in 2000, when more than half of the 425 people infected died. Cases of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) has gone up to 50 in the Assam State in Eastern India . The areas mostly affected by Japanese Encephalitis are Kamrup, Sivasagar, Dhubri, Morigaon, Darrang and Nalbari. More than 400 people in northern India have died last year from encephalitis, a rare condition that causes inflammation of the brain. Around 347 people have died in Uttar Pradesh, while 54 children have died in the neighbouring state of Bihar . Cases of malaria is increasing every...

Hindustan copper ltd. (HCL) is presently the sole indigenous producer of primary copper in the country. The all India recoverable reserves of copper ore are placed at 431.046 million tonnes equivalent to about 4.557 million tonnes of metal content. The prospective resources are placed at 769.90 million tonnes of copper ore. Copper concentrated states are, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Recently in Jharkhand copper mining has been stopped due to involvement of more money and less profit only one mine is working. Boreholes drilled in Chitar sector in Pali and Ajmer districts in Rajasthan have intersected ore zones, varying in width from 0.55 to 9.8 m. The zones contain grade ranging between 0.5% and 1% Cu and 1% and 2%zinc. Drilling investigation in Dariba (Akola) copper prospect, Rajasthan, has indicated about 2 million tonnes of copper ore. The test drilling by GSI at Saran Bhawava...