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 proof of the pudding, as they say, lies in eating. And if Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalithaa has to keep her words about banishing poverty from the
The over $1,350-million marine export market is feeling the pinch of the dollar weakening against the rupee, though officials at Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) see only a
Indian industry, with a view to boost exports to the European Union, the US, Japan and other developed countries, has decided to directly cater to customers' choice in these countries as regards the
The European Union and the United States have moved in the right direction with their deal on farm trade reform, but the proposals still allow hefty degrees of subsidy and market protection, analysts
Even as the Union finance minister Jaswant Singh spoke in his Budget speech about promoting India as a global healthcare destination, the healthcare facilities in and around Mumbai are caught in a
In India, smoking causes about half of all deaths due to tuberculosis or other respiratory diseases in males. Numerically every year 200,000 people die from tuberculosis on account of tobacco
The 15-nation European Union (EU) and the United States have set the stage for a major confrontation with India and other leading developing countries, including China, Brazil and Argentina, at the
In a significant move, the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have offered to support the developing countries with trade-related adjustment needs at the WTO's Cancun ministerial
Ranbaxy Laboratories has challenged yet another patent of a blockbuster drug in the US market. This will take the company's paragraph IV filings in that country to more than half a dozen. Ranbaxy has
Smoking causes half of all deaths due to tuberculosis in males and a quarter of all deaths in middle aged males in India. The current death rates indicate that about a quarter of cigarette or bidi
