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.
The fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) in India has got a fresh impetus. The Global Fund has approved $130 million (Rs 650 crore) in its second round of funding to fight the two diseases in
The three-day mini-ministerial of the World Trade Organisation ended in Tokyo in without consensus on agriculture exporting gianst' demand for increase access to markets with New Delhi backing
The Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) a laboratory in the Council of Science and Industrial Research's (CSIR) fold, is making headway in identifying environment-friendly, biotechnology based
Taking note of the 700 deaths due to the intense cold wave that swept the entire North India, the Supreme Court issued notice to Centre and 13 states in a public interest litigation alleging that
A top U.S. trade official said Washington is exploring a more cooperative economic relationship with Beijing, after China lent support to a controversial U.S. campaign to cut global agriculture
Remote sensing data is no longer confined to scientific applications. Of late, the data is being used by corporates as a vital MIS (management information system) tool in their decision-making
Eli Lilly India plans to introduce its severe osteoporosis treatment drug Forteo in India this year. An application for regulatory approval for the drug, launched in the US in November last year,
The Cabinet committee on economic affairs approved the commerce ministry's proposal for operationslisation / implementation of the Rs 500-crore price stabalisation fund scheme for plantation crops
Notwithstanding the controversies related to the uncertainty in predicting climate change, let alone the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework conventin on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have successful in extracting silica, used in industrial and pharmaceutical applications, from rice husk ash. The process in which the silica is
