One important provision of the Bill is to a National Transportation Policy with a view to establish a planning framework within which transport bodies and all forms of road transport would operate.
Negotiators wrestled with a new plan to end a row between the United States and developing countries over access to life-saving medicines which threatens to sour global free trade talks. On the table
Haryana agriculture minister Jaswinder Singh has sought the Prime Minister's intervention to immediately announce some relief for the state's small and marginal farmers who have suffered due to poor
India's foodgrain production is likely to fall to its seven-yar low of 183.17 million tonne in 2002-03. Due to the worst drought in last 120 years, the foodgrain output in 2002-03 will mark a sharp
Hyderabad-based Agri Net Solutions LTd, promoted by the United Phosphorous Ltd and ICICI- Ventures, has mapped geographic characterizations of Basmati rice for the first time in the country. The
Roche Holding AG said that it would sell a critical AIDS medicine in developing countries at cost, bowing to criticism that it hadn't done enough to make the drug affordable. The new policy,
After the successful privatization of solid waste management in Chennai, cities like Banglore and Ahmedabad are looking to emulate the same with similar public private partnerships (PPP) for their
The taskforce on drought, headed by deputry prime minister LK Advani, has approved a Rs 3000-crore special relief package to Rajasthan and decided to provide additional Rs 13 crore to Arunachal
New Delhi has set the tone for the developing countries at the ongoing WTO mini-ministerial by spelling out its reservations on market access in agriculture and pleaded for commitment from the
Hopes for a breakthrough on the contentious TRIPs and public health issues were dashed with Washington sticking to its stand of extending concessions to its pharma industry even as New Delhi and
