Rural India knows much on WTO, discovers Pune NGO
Far from corporate pow-wows and supershops stacked with foreign fancies for urban India's swinging set, an anxious sarpanch or a hardy head-master is spelling W-T-O to a rapt gram sabha or classroom
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Rewrite the Agreement on Agriculture
The Agreement on Agriculture, drawn up when the World Trade Agreement came into force six years ago, is inequitable and heavily loaded in favour of developed countries. Though the developing nations
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Advances in stem-cell study renew controversy in U.S.
U.S. grass-roots organizer Molly Naylor supports research into embryonic stem cells, hoping that it may lead to a cure for the juvenile diabetes that afflicts her son. But when she called the Whire
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Power to P2P: Intel initiates drug research through the Net
The chip-maker is turning phil-anthropher. Under Intel's peer-to-peer (P2P) computing programme, anyone anywhere in the world with a PC or a laptop can participate in efforts to find a treatment for
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Forest area increases
Forest area in Dolakha district has expanded following the development of community forest that provides the users the responsibility and right to preserve and utilise the forest and its
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'El Nino early next month'
El Nino, the weather phenomenon that can trigger deadly droughts and floods, could arrive as early as July and reach its full devastating intensity by the end of the year, a US government weather
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RFs freed from encroachers
The Forest Department today demolished 115 houses in Amsang and South Amsang Reserve Forest (RF) in Guwahati city and recovered 36 hectares of forest land from the encroachers.
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US still has World Bank in its sights
The US administration pleased other industrialised countries over the weekend by signalling support for the proposed international fund to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing
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7 more Peacocks die in Rajasthan
Seven more peacocks died due to severe heat in Jaipur district since Wednesday, forest officials said here today. The carcass of a peacock was found in the same area near Heerapura power grid
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Zonal mapping of Andhra Pradesh
A few months down the line, an entrepreneur wishing to invest in Andhra Pradesh can access the Internet to zero in on a geographical area of his interest or liking where he wishes to set up an
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Seminar calls for cutting noise pollution levels
The Delhi government has expressed its limitations in focussing on preventation of noise pollution when air and water pollution are major areas of concern. Delhi state government's environment
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MCD plans to put meat waste to good use
More than 250 metric tonnes of meat waste is collected in Delhi and dumped in a landfill site at Ghazipur. But the Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD) now plans to set up a plant which will convert the
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Japanese aid not linked to whaling vote
Sic Carbbean countries that have said they will support the resumption of commercial whaling this week have rejected accusations that they have sold their votes to Japan or any other prowhaling
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'Animals die of summer heat in Nagarhole'
The Institute for National Resources Conservation, Education, Research & Training (INCERT) has alleged that some animals in the Titmattin and Veeranahosalli ranges of the Nagarhole National Park in
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Ireland relaxing cattle epidemic curbs
Ireland is lifting curbs it imposed on some sports, leisure pursuits, the control of cattle movements and other farm activities over the spread of foot-and-mouth (FMB) disease, the Irish Agriculture
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Japan lifts ban on Spain pork import
The Japan's Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday it had lifted a temporary ban on imports of pork and pork products from Spain as there is little possibility that imports are affected by
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Maneka kills research
Medical research has almost stopped in several institutions in the country as a result on the stiff guidelines on experiments involving animals imposed by a committee under animal rights' Maneka
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Thakur joins issue with Maneka
The Union Health Minister, C.P. Thakur, today joined issue with the Union Animal Welfare minister, Maneka Gandhi, stating that her allegations over the functioning of the ICMR's national Institute of
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Bush to uphold then amend road ban plan
The Bush administration will allow a ban on road-building in much of the nation's federal forest lands to take effect next week but will propose changes to it in June, Agriculture Secretary Ann
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Bush will continue Clinton's forest plan
President George W.Bush will leave in place a Clinton-era plan protecting almost one-third of US national forests from development, senior administration officials said on