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.
Bountiful rainfall in the past two months has erased the traces of last year's drought. Reports of floods have come from Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala,
The Union health ministry has thrown a spanner into attempts to evolve a unified food law in the country. The ministry has emphasised its desire to retain the directorate of prevention of food
Industry needs to invest in the agriculture sector because lack of its synergy with farmers has been deterring the sector's growth, feels Planning Commission deputy chairman KC Pant. Addressing the
The US and the EU will work on a "hybrid formula' for tariff reduction in agriculture and present it to the World Trade Organisation by August 11. This decision was taken at the mini-ministerial meet
The government is reluctant to challenge the patent rights recently acquired by Monsanto on crossbreeds of Indian wheat landrace,
The northern states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, haryana and Punjab followed by Maharashtra, have emerged as the hotbeds of trade in spurious medicines going by cases detected by the government. Fake
The TRIPs Council chairman will hold a series of meetings starting next week to sort out tthe contentious issue of TRIPs & Public Health. The chairman will submit his report to the General Council
A number of herbal products with medicinal value are likely to receive government approval soon which would help overcome objections raised by European Union (EU), and boost exports. Looking at
As member countries enter the final stages of the negotiations in the run up to the World Trade Organisation's ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico, the process of "give and take' is slowly
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has started training programmes in the horticultural crops. Initially, FAO has started the programme in banana cultivation for the farmers through
