Your French wine may just have pesticides
The lowly wine cork may have been unfairly blamed for the poor taste of some wines produced in France's Bordeaux region over the past decade, this was reported by two French magazines on Sunday. The
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City's environment resembles Nazi gas chambers
To damn with your black lungs, your air thick with pernicious pollutants, your child born with asthma. The city was in the grip of a maniac swadeshi politics and nepotic rulers, as pollution bgan to
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Airlines tiptoe in with muffled fleets
Airplane noise has gotten a lot softer, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and a 10 year program with that in mind is approaching a pianissimo finale. But some airlines will face a
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Decision on ramaining gas-hit wards soon
ADvani : The Union Home Minister L K Advani recently assured a delegation of BJP leaders from Bhopal that the decision on declaring remaining wards of Bhopal as gas-hit would be taken soon.
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Project to develop combination medications in TN
Shantimalai Trust, the non-governmental organisation working for the development of the villages in the vicinity of the Arunachala hill in Thiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu, is in the process
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Forest fires in J&K
Forest fires have been reported across Jammu and Kashmir, some of them apparently sparked by the cross border shelling. While the initial reports of forest fires were received from the outskirts of
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Call to put antelope on endangered list
Environmentalists plan to urge the US government to add an antelope, found only in the remote Himalayan high plains of China and Tibet, to its endangered species list so as to help stop the global
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Kerala seeks Central help
Kerala has sought Central assistance of Rs. 2.5 crore to fight for foot and mouth disease in cattle. In a letter to the Union Agriculture Minister, Kerala food and civil supplies minister E.
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Wyeth Lederle unveils vaccine for pneumonia
Pharaceutical major, Wyeth Lederle, is augmenting its vaccine business by adding new vaccines to its nascent vaccines portfolio in India. The most recent addition is Pnu-Immune 23, a product that
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NGOs propose CoFAB as an alternative for UPOV
Two Delhi-based NGOs have proposed a new treaty of developing countries for protecting the farmers rights as an alternative to Union for Protection of New Plant Varieties (UPOV). The NGOs, Gene
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Blow to hopes for use of genetically altered seed
Industry hopes that France might soon permit the use of certain genetically altered corn seeds have been delivered a new blow. France's Council of State, which monitors aministrative law, had
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Poisoning halts production of Nestle's Italian Christmas cake
Nestle has halted production of panettone - Italy's favourite Christmas cake - after rat poison inserted by the Animal Liberation Front was found in two cakes in shops in Florence and Bologna. The
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Hair-analysis test spots obesity genes
Mitsubishi Kagaku Bio-Clinical Laboratories Inc. has developed a hair analysis test for the so-called obesity genes that affect calorie expenditures. The lab plans to provide testing services on a
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Electric current used to control enzyme
A research group from Shinshu University (Japan) said it has conducted studies showing that an electric current can be used to control the action of the metabolic enzyme known as cytochrome P450.
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Japan-US environmental research to become intergovernmental project
Japan and the U.S. will upgrade a joint research program on changes in the environment to an intergovernmental project. The Science and Technology Agency and the U.S. National Science Foundation will
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Quarantine unit for seeds set up
A plant quarantine station equipped to screen imported seeds and planting material for diseases and pests was inaugurated in New Delhi on Friday by agriculture minister Som Pal. This is one of the
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World Bank lauds 'Operation Flood'
A World Bank evaluation of the dairy development programme 'Operation Flood' has revealed that it has not only brought about a dairy revolution in the country but also had a multi-dimensional
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Panel on people's role in forestry
The environment and forests ministry has constituted a committee on joint forest management (JFM) to evolve an institutional mechanism for an effective people-government partnership on forest
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HC allows Mahyco cotton seed research
Mr. Justice B.S.A. Swamy of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has allowed Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company (Mahyco) to continue growing cotton crop in its research fields till the end of the season and
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New drug for flu in the offing
A new drug to combat flu has been found to reduce symptoms and the duration of the infection and its complications, doctors reported recently. The drug, which is inhaled, was found to be effective