A Greenpece contingent demonstrated outside the Canadian Consulate in Hamburg as a delegation of representatives from the British Columbia government and forest industry began a week long tour of
Glaxo Wellcome Plc said its hepatitis B drug in development demonstrated sustained disease fighting capacity over two years in clinical tests. The drug called lamivudine, is considered important in
The Bihar Cabinet today slapped a ban on private practice by government doctors with immediate effect. The decision will affect 10,000 doctors working in the eight medical colleges and all the
When it comes to the latest trands, animals are not left behind. The new mantra at the Delhi zoo is alternative therapy. Ayurvedic treatment on an elderly white tigress, a sulphur-crested cuckatoo
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed owners of all mobile zoos in the country to surrender animals in their possession to the chief wildlife wardens of their respective states by July 21. The
The World Wide Fund for Nature-India has expressed resentment over the Maharashtra Government's attempts to construct a multi-million dollar port at Vadhavan saying that if the port comes up it will
Activists of an international campaign launched to stop the US-based RiceTec Inc's attempt to patent basmati are targeting an unusual person--the prince of an European principality. Prince Hans-Adam
Good rains have finally brokenin Vietnam's key coffee growing province of Daklak where a severe drought has affected up to a third of the crop, a meteorologist and foreign traders said on Monday.
Today's systems show only the caller's telephone number, but researchers at Ericssor's research and development laboratory in Lund, Sweden, believe the photo system is only a few years away. They
The Andhra Pradesh government is in the process of evolving a comprehensive policy to promote the use of fly ash in construction activity. The government is looking in to the existing gaps with
Thick smoke from hundreds of forest fires is severely restricting travel to and from Honduras with the country's four international airports affected by poor
Scientists are exploiting their discoveries instead of leaving the task to drug companies : a
A meeting of the major political parties of the State and some Bodo and Santhal clashes in the Kokrajhar district, has come out with a strong resolution urging the State Government to take every
The UK goverment's decision to accept nuclear waste from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia at the Dounreay nuclear complex in norther Scotland is to be investigated by the House of Commons trade
The upcoming world AIDS conference may be in for some grim news as problems emerge with the "cocktail" therapy of protease inhibitor drugs, pioneering AIDS researcher Robert Gallo said on Monday. The
The economics of blood donation has a direct bearing on the possibility of blood being contaminated with infectious diseases such as AIDS, Hepatitits-B, point out experts at the All India Institute
About 44 lakh tonnes of fertile topsoil is lost every year from areas where jhum cultivation is practiced in Nagaland. This was stated by the Soil Conservation Director, Mr. V. Angami, while replying
Once rich in wildlife the forests of the Himalayas, are almost devoid of the jungle cats and other animals as their habitat has been invaded by man, according to a book based on the personal oddessey
Medical researchers are tackling cancer in many different ways. The estimated 300 experimental cancer drugs range from orthodox chemotherapy to biotechnology approaches such as antibodies and gene
The Delhi Government will plant 22 lakh saplings in the capital in 1998-99 as part of a drive to increase the city's green cover and make it pollution
