The Centre has given environment clearance for the expansion of runway at the Jammu Airport which will entail an investment of Rs 92 crore, a senior government official said Monday. Jammu airport, which
The world is getting fatter, and though the makers of chocolate, soft drinks and burgers are taking the rap from watchdogs like the World Health Organisation, some food producers can still look
Performance reports from southern and central states on three hybrids of Bt cotton that have just come in, will provide the backdrop for a meeting of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC)
Enthused by the success of Kuppam Agricultural Project (KAP) in Chittoor district using Israeli dry-land farming technologies, the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to replicate the model in
Though the developed west is petrified by SARS and the havoc it could wreak if it turns into a pandemic, the real losers could be developing countries like India. One estimate pegs the economic cost
Glaxosmithkline world's largest maker of HIV/AIDS drugs, said it had nearly halved the price of its leading Combivir treatment in poor countries to 90 US cents a day. The move is the latest sign the
While Atomic Energy Commission is doing the trial run of an indigenously
The global war against tobacco consumption gathered momentum with the European Union (EU) finally agreeing to become a signatory to the WHO
A fortnight after the Indian Meterological Department (IMD) forecase the possibility of monsoons on the
The government made its position emphatically clear that the WTO agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) does not mandate date exclusivity. This brings to nought a protracted
The holy cos is doing Bharat Mata proud. India will become the fastest growing milk economy in the world this year. Already the single biggest doodh producer
