NEW DELHI: A team of American researchers at the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta and their collaborators at the National Institute of Immunology (NII) here have developed a malaria vaccine based on a synthetic gene which they believe could protect people from the deadliest type of malaria . The vaccine is designed to enlist many parts of the human immune system to fight malaria parasites at various stages of their complex life cycle and hence would be very effective, says their report in the latest issue of the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.

MP disowns goon

NEW DELHI: BJP MP Ganga Ram Koli today denied links with alleged gangster Rajan Tewari, who was arrested from his house, saying "I do not even know this man and have never met him, " Koli said in a statement here. Maintaining that he was shocked over media reports regarding the arrest of the gangster who was playing cards in the lawns in front ofhis house, the MP from Rajasthan said that a wrong impression had been created that the person was staying in his house.AIIMS stir

NEW DELHI: Striking doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) today threatened to intensify their indefinite agitation which entered seventh day today crippling health care services in the country's premier institute. A spokesman of the FAIIMS said general body of the faculty would meet here tomorrow to work out future strategy of the agitation.