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
VHAI : The unprecedented growth of health-destructive industries like liquor, tobacco, chemiclas and pesticides, and promotion of profit-driven privatised health care spell disaster for the health
Four former prime ministers, leaders of political parties and several eminents citizens today stressed the need to immediately formulate a comprehensive policy on agriculture in the wake of suicides
The remainder of India's 1998 fiscal year programme under World Bank loans may suffer the same fate as the four projects worth $865 million postponed through Unites States muscle yesterday, according
Irked by the delay in payments of cane bills by the sugar factories, many cane growers in Uttar Pradesh have opted for mentha cultivation as a more lucrative crop. Mentha is a basic ingredient for
India, Pakistan and Nepal have agreed for boosting up regional cooperation to tackle environmental problems in South Asia. At a recent seminar organised by the Unites States Information Service
Chilika , Asia's biggest salt water lake spread over 1,100 square kilomentres, is choking with an ever-increasing silt load and spreading nets of prawn culturists. Crass commercialism in the form of
The US justice department and 20 states formally filed antitrust law-suits against Microsoft Corp today, launching what may be one of the biggest battles in history with big business. The antitrust
In a landmark judgement, the Orissa High Court has asked the state government to evict all encroachers from the Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary on coast. The court also has directed the state to
Activists of an international campaign launched to stop the US-based RiceTec Inc's attempt to patent basmati are targeting an unusual person--the prince of an European principality. Prince Hans-Adam
The Andhra Pradesh government is in the process of evolving a comprehensive policy to promote the use of fly ash in construction activity. The government is looking in to the existing gaps with
