The consumption of extra white cauliflower, fresh-looking brinjal and extra green okra (lady's finger) can cause health hazards as most of these have been sprayed with excess pesticides. Such samples
A farm scientist with the Cotton Corporation of India has suggested cultivation of a desi cotton variety in areas bordering Pakistan in a bid to check the spread of a deadly cotton virus in India
Officials now fear the nutria as big as a cat, with a long rat's tail and the webbed rear feet of a duck poses a threat to Thailand's lush, rice growing wetlands. When they're free, nutria use their
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to the Union welfare secretary and the chief secretary of the Delhi government on a petition highlighting the unhygienic working
A team of British scientists is close to finding the first gene known to be associated with speech and language. They have located the part of a chromosome that holds the gene, known as Speech One,
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will provide commercial services by taking up launch assignments of foreign satellites with indigenous launch vehicles by this year
The nation's largest oil refiners plan to announce that they will voluntary reduce the sulfur content in gasoline, allowing automakers to fuel a new generation of low-polluting cars, sources within
Representatives of Greenpeace and the Candaian group Nuclear Awareness Project met with people at the village of Buyukeceli, close to Akkuyu, the proposed site of Turkey's first nuclear power plant.
European member states allowed four genetically engineered crops to be imported into Europe. Greenpeace condemned the European Union's failure to fight for the protection of the environment and
The case for environmental taxation is good enough in itself.It is not hepled by those making either unsound objections or exaggerated claims in favour: a
