About one-third of US corn and soyabean land will be planted with bio-engineered seed this year, a seed company executive has said, and the figure probably will reach 50 per cent next year. US
After coming in for heavy criticism for financial irregularities, teak plantation companies are under fire from forestry experts who have dismissed their claims as being grossly exaggerated. A report
As the adverse effects of industrial pollution and the stress of urban life take a heavy toll of human lives, medical toxicology - the science of curing the human body from the toxic effects of
The city's traffic police periodically builds up a hype over anti-pollution steps being under-taken by the department and at the end of every exercise takes credit for challaning thousands of vehicle
In a bid to appease the powerful sandalwood exporters lobby, the Union Government has more than tripled the quota of sandalwood oil for export from five metric tonnes(mt) in 1996-97 to 16.5 mt in
Agriculture in Punjab is confronted with problems. These, according to experts, may affect the agro-ecosystem. The south-western region which contributed 15 per cent of the total cotton production in
The Non-Governmental Organisations accompanying the official delegation to Kuching, Malaysia, have urged the Government to ratify the Basel Ban and not get deterred by the "machinations of the
Scientitsts have made human hearts grow tiny new blood vessels by injecting proteins, raising hopes that the procedure may one day be used to treat people with clogged heart arteries. The study was
British scientists are developing an artificial pancreas that could save diabetics from the pain of daily injections. The device. which researchers hope could be implanted in the Patient's abdomen,
Indian rabbits could, at last heave a sigh of relief if the Bangalore-based pharmaceutical equipment distributor's grand plans to domestically produce a reagent for testing fever-causing pyrogens
