China develops new rice hybrid
China has successfully bred a new variety of 'super hybrid rice', which would boost the average output per hectare to 9,750 kg from the current national average of 6,300 kg. The breakthrough was by
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Flood kills 953 in the state
Due to heavy rain, flood and other natural calamities, 953 persons and 3184 cattle heads have lost their lives in Uttar Pradesh so far. The dependents of deceased have been provided the gratuitous
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Tatas eyeing alternative healthcare
The Rs 45,000-crore Tata group is weighing the option of a foray into alternative medicines and nutraceuticals. The group wants to carve out a global presence in these
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Dengue epidemic grips district, 1 dead at Nampur
More than 50 persons in Nashik are reportedly infected by dengue-like disease, claiming one life at Nampur, despite administration's special efforts to curb its
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Diarrhoea toll goes up
Fresh cases of diarrhoea were reported today from parts of North Dinajpur even as the toll from the outbreak went up to 20 with five more deaths reported in the past 24
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Crops worth crores lost in floods
Crop loss in Srikakulam district due to heavy rains is expected to run into hundreds of crores even as the flood affected areas are slowly returning to
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Exploitation is still explosive here
The exploitation of children goes on in the open in Sivakasi fireworks
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Mopping up the Chennai muck
A beachcomber is whizzing away litter from the sands at Marina beach, making it spotlessly clean. Having demolisehd all eyesores and dilapidated structures on the Marina earlier this month, the
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Fragile life
Helpless factory workers in Pondicherry glass factory die of
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Cultivating diversity
There is an urgent need to accord recognition to the traditional wisdom of farmers who persist with retaining biodiversity in agricultural practices in the face of the aggressive promotion of
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Ravaged by a river
Malda district in West Bengal has lost huge swathes of land to the fury of the Ganga, and thousands of families have been deprived of their homes and
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From debt to death
Crop losses caused by three successive years of inadequate rainfall and the diminishing presence of institutional credit force a large number of Karnataka farmers into the debt trap. Some of them
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Hunger deaths in Union Food Minister's constituency
Madhepura in Bihar is no ordinary constituency: in the last elections, it rejected Laloo Prasad Yadav to send Sharad Yadav to Delhi where he is today the Union Minister for Food and Civil Supplies.
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Winged fears
There is a nation-wide concern over the dengue outbreak that has, at last count, affected at least 5,000 people all over India and claimed several lives in regions as far apart as south Kerala and
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UK makes wilful disease transmission criminal offence
People who knowingly make others ill could be liable to criminal prosecution after the conviction of a man who deliberately infected two women with HIV. It is it theoretically possible, for instance,
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ILO marriage main route in HIV cases
It is not just family, employers and society at large that discriminate against those suffering from HIV/AIDS, but even institutions like hospitals , which are supposed to be caregivers, says a
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Ravana, the real villan
Dussehra might be over but it's hangover is still lingering in the air. Official figures of the Central Pollution Control Board suggest the at air pollution levels have gone up post- Dussehra. The
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US study links gene mutation to long life
A gene that affects the size of molecules in blood cholesterol may help people live to be 100 or older by protecting against heart disease, stroke, diabetes and other diseases, a study has said. The
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Encroachments on forest land to be removed
The Himachal Pradesh Government has decided to remove 41,083 encroachments from 81,68 hectares of forest land within this week and the authorities concerned have been ordered to implement the
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PM calls for people-centred wildlife conservation
Expressing concern over the activities of poachers, the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, called for people-centred conservation approach with the participation of all stakeholders in