Umeed brings heart camp for Sangrur
Umeed, with the support of Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, today organised a one-day heart camp in Sangrur where over 300 patients were examined and referred for specialised treatment. A
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US foodmakers urge ban on food crops for medicine
U.S. food companies urged the government last week to temporarily ban the use of corn, soybeans and other food crops to produce pharmaceuticals after a Texas company accidentally mixed its
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Seed scarcity hits farmers
Farmers facing hardships due to landslides and drought in different parts of Nepal are faced with yet another problems in the form of scarcity of wheat seeds. The wheat planting season ends in
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Targeting tribal people
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests seeks to clear 12.5 lakh hectares of forest land by evicting its 10-million strong tribal population.
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Indian farmers abandon land in S. Africa
Indian farmers in South Africa are being forced out of their lands through burglaries, crop destruction, farm attacks and car thefts. The farmers in KwaZulu-Natal and Asheville near KwaDukuza, about
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'Promote neem on global arena'
Neem may have been recognised by the Persians as the "free tree of India"; but much more needs to be done to promote it in the global arena, according to experts working on the subject. "While the
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CM waives interest on farmers' loans
Delhi government today waived interest on loans taken by farmers from Delhi State Cooperative Bank (DSCB) for a year. Announcing the waiver at a function to distribute drought relief cheques to
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Sarson da Saga
The jury is still out on the issue of transgenic mustard: After its initial approval, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has now deferred its decision on commercial cultivation of
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Gujarat farmers reap biotech cotton harvest
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is on his way to Surat. The Bt - a seed genetically engineered to resist the American bollworm, for long the bane of cotton farmers - has indeed transformed the
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'Drought relief inadequate'
Rao Inderjit Singh, a member of the All India Congress Committee has taken exception to the Prime Minister's announcement that recovery of crop loans, including interest, was being waived for the
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Protein test predicts heart disease
Researchers reported that an inexpensive blood test for a protein linked to artery disease may be better than a cholesterol test for predicting a person's risk of heart attack or stroke. The test for
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A diet that halves heart attack rate
A new study suggests South Asia can halve its rate of heart attacks if it copied some ideas from the famously fit making food of the Mediterranean rim. Experts recruited a thousand volunteers to a
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Govt. will formulate eco-package: Mufti
To improve the fiscal health of Jammu and Kashmir for overall development, Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed said today that the government would formulate a comprehensive economic package. Mufti
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'Fight those who block economic growth'
The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, today gave a call "to fight vested interests who try to stop the speedy economic growth of the country.'' Inaugurating a Rs. 36-crore 'Total Development Project for
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Panchayats: J&K Government favours West Bengal model
Favouring a West Bengal model in the working of grassroots units of governance in Jammu and Kashmir, the Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, has said that panchayats would be empowered to take up
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'1 crore tribals may be evicted'
India Tribal Convention, which began on Monday in Ranchi, Bihar, has alleged that nearly one crore tribals would be removed from their dwellings by a directive of Union Environment Ministry to remove
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Cheap drugs for the poor deal boosts trade talks
Trade ministers appeared to have cleared an important obstacle to the Doha round of world trade deal aimed at giving poor countries cheaper medicines for diseases such as HIV/Aids and malaria. The
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JM grabs forest land, violates court order
Contrary to the government's liability to protect the environment by protecting the forest land. Jammu Municipality has encroached a piece of land near Deer Park Manda, wherein the Municipality is
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High Court prevents firm from felling trees in tea estates
Kerala High Court has restrained Ram Bahadur Thakur Ltd., Kochi, from cutting and removing the trees in its nine tea estates at Peermade and Vandiperiyar and from fragmenting the estates. The order
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Talks fail, Adivasis refuse to leave 'captured' land
Activists of the Adivasi Vimochana Munnani (AVM) who occupied 120 acres of forest land at Chathirur Nilaymala, coming under the Kottiuyur range near Iritty (Kannur), Kerala, are determined to stay