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 shipping ministry has approached the ministry of external affairs for inclusion of inland water transport (IWT) in the Indo-Nepal treaty. This would help the two countries in moving cargo through
In a first for a Group of Seven industrial country, Canada appears poised to allow exports to poor countries of generic versions of patented medications for treating infectious diseases such as AIDS,
This is yet another sweet story turning sour. After Pune, Mumbai too experienced a similar incident. Worms were found in a Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bar, following which the state Food and Drugs
Transport major Volvo has announced the Volvo Adventure Young Environmentalists Award contest 2003. The award encourages students to conduct research on issues that affect the environment. National
Union commerce minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday that it was time India prepared itself to make some concessions to achieve larger gains at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which he said was
President Vladimir Putin's sudden vacillation on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, though inexplicable to many, is in keeping with the Russian leader's policy of brinkmanship. Mr Putin knows that
The agricultural ministry said that the necessary amendments to the Sugar (Cess) Act, 1982 would be effected in consultation with the ministry of law and justice. The countervailing duty on sugar
Union minister of state for Urban development Bandaru Dattatraya has said that the efforts being made by the state governments to have private-public investment in 25 cities has met with limited
The Uttar Pradesh Government announced Rs 56.62 crore relief from the calamity relief fund for disbursement of gratuitous relief, ex-gratia payment and house building assistance among flood
In a dramatic development, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has cancelled all meetings of negotiating groups scheduled to begin this week. The meetings had been lined up to continue the
