Malaysian auto policy is idling
With import tariffs in Southeast Asia beginning to fall, Malaysia's government has yet to spell out how it plans to continue to protect is auto industry from foreign competition. At issue are
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Oyster cultivators feel from baby boom
The heatwave that scorched France in August has triggered an unsustainable surge in the population of baby oysters in the Bay of Arcachon, the main breeding ground for the French shell-fish industry.
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Swiss Re joins hands with UNDP to study climate change
Swiss Re, Harvard Medical School and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have come together to assess trends and to project the future health impact of climate change and biodiversity
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India Inc joins hands to aid govt in AIDS fight
the one day summit titled
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Drug policy not susceptible to judicial review: govt
The government has rejected claims made in the Supreme Court that many essential drugs are not included in the national list of essential medicines under the controversial pharmaceutical policy of
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Gates foundation pledges $25-m for new agri tech
The US-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to render an assistance of $25 million for combating malnutritional problems in the developing countries, including India. This assistance
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Drought pockets in 16 states despite good monsoon
Notwithstanding a good monsoon this year, there are pockets of drought scattered over 16 states in the country. In contrast, heavy rains, flash floods and landslides have caused damage to life and
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Germany and UK collaborate on improving health systems
Britain and Germany are to work closely on modernising their health sectors, including on controversial British government plans to allow some hospitals to operate more independently of the National
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Tremor causes panic in Kutch
An aftershock measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale shook parts of Kutch, creating panic among the people. People even ran out of hospitals, with saline bottles in hand as the window panes rattled quite
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River bank erosion borders on trouble
The Border Security Force in south Bengal are keeping their fingers crossed over the possible impact of the erosion of river banks in Malda and Murshidabad since both the districts are situated along
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India, China to move fast on free trade
India and China are speeding up efforts to set up a free trade area (FTA) on the lines of similar pacts that both countries have concluded with the 10-nation Asean countries. The joint study group on
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More worms found in chocolates
Worm-infested Cadbury chocolates continue to pop up in Maharashtra. The latest sighting was in a departmental store owned by former minister Shrikant Jichkar. Another batch of worm-infested
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Russia may be stalling in its bid to join World Trade Organization
Russia appears to be digging in its heels in long-running negotiations on joining the World Trade Organization, as last month's failure of global trade talks in Mexico has given the Kremlin more time
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And quiet flow effluents
A river without a respite. Even as officialdom cries hoarse about cleaning up the Yamuna, the ground reality is that the river can no longer depend on the little that was being done for it. In the
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Konkan rly to introduce sky bus metro
India's future generations will travel across cities through
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Centre must ensure compensation from Dow Chemicals
Progeny of Bhopal gas victims suffer from under developed bodies, says a scientific study that was recently published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA). The study shows that male
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Fears of flooding in fresh areas of Orissa
Even as rains continued to lash several parts of Orissa, a country boat carrying eight persons capsized in the Kathjodi at Cuttack. Four persons had been rescued and efforts were on to save others
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Leopards cross over from park to urban jungle
There was a 23rd panther attack in Mumbai this year recently . A wild leopard here is an amazing oddity.
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Car sales boom in September; 13% rise
Car sales surged by nearly 13 per cent in September with almost all manufacturers such as Maruti Udyog, Hyundai Motor India and Tata Motors recording a growth. Car sales went up for the sixth
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Ranbaxy to take human trials for prostrate drug to UK
With the Government yet to take a call on allowing Phase I clinical trials in India, Ranbaxy looks poised to take the human trial for its investigational new drug (IND) in the benign prostrate