US Defense Secretary Willaim Cohen has decided that the 36,000 US troops in the Gulf should undergo anthrax vaccinations as a "prudent action," the pentagon announced on Tuesday. The decision to
India must initiate action against Kenya and Sri Lanka for threatening its tea market by selling tea under the Darjeeling label, said a patent expert. Given India's leading position in textiles,
As many as 21 high altitude panchayats of Tissa development blocks in Chamba district bordening Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir have been badly hit by the recent heavy snowfall. Some areas may
Malaysia now has the largest number of baby friendly hospitals in the world, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Malaysia is the third country in the world where all its government
Mission Control has cancelled a six-hour space walk by the two Russian cosmonauts aboard Mir after the pair were unable to open the hatch leading into open space. Flight Commander Vladimir Solovyev
Photographs sent back by the space probe Galileo offer new evidence that Jupiter's moon Europe has a massive ocean under its icy surface. The photos, which were taken in December, show a crater, a
US-based agriculture and pharmaceuticals giant Monsanto is setting up a specialised research unit in India for developing new crop strains. The move comes as a surprise as this is the first time a
Two workshops on biomedical waste management and on ISO 14000 implementation would be held between March 4 and 7. The workshops are being organised by an Indo-Canadian joint venture company, Camillus
Thanks to oil-financed imports, Iraq's per capita food availability before sanctions were imposed in 1990 was one of the highest in West Asia. So plentiful and cheap was food that seven per cent of
Humes Industries of Malaysia, Thames Water and Biwater of the United Kingdom, GVK Industries, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bovis India and Larsen & Toubro are among the eight shortlisted for the Rs 2,000
