The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has obtained permission for “restricted use in public health emergency” of two second-line HIV medications for use against the novel coronavirus (nCoV).
Ganga, Jamuna, Kaveri and Saraswati have never been in the wild but soon the four White Tiger cubs will be almost in the forest. The Delhi Zoo is trying make its enclosures look natural like the ones
Intense heat wave conditions continued to sweep across Andhra Pradesh, where sun-stroke has claimed 370 lives in the past 10 days, Relief Commissioner B C Rosaiah said. The state government has taken
The entire seed belt of Gujarat is converted into one giant laboratory where enterprising farmers are mixing and crossing local varieties with the genetically modified one to develop their own
More and more children in Aligarh district are ending up with twisted limbs as organisations like the WHO, UNICEF and Rotary International and the district authorities find that their concerted
A vacation judge of the Madras High Court has stayed the operation of the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification dated April 22, 2003 of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests stipulating
Scientists in Hong Kong and mainland China have developed a potential vaccine for SARS which they will soon test on animals, a microbiologist on the team said. Laboratories worldwide have been racing
Revolutions cannot be tightly controlled and delivered in bite-sized bits, certainly not agricultural revolutions. The transgenic chaos in Gujarat's cotton belts highlights this amply. As reported in
Troubled world trade talks missed another deadline on Wednesday with no deal reached on how to cut tariffs on industrial goods, envoys said. World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations, launched at
Keeping with Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee's promise to strengthen the economy of Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre today approved a Rs 2,500 crore plan outlay for the state for 2003-04. The Special Task
It's no coincidence that the population of this village is nearly the same as the number of peacocks - 2,000. Though listed among the drought-prone areas if the district, the village is distinct by
