The small hydro-power development programme for the Himalayan region is open to the private sector also. The general impression was that only local bodies, cooperatives, non-government organisations
MNCs : Four major plant breeders from Germany, Netherlands and France have threatened to deny access to new rose varieties to Indian floriculturists if there is no improvement in the protection of
Levy of tax on biodiversity-based industries such as pharmaceuticals and seeds, and elite consumers of derived products with the objective of creating a biodiversity conservation fund(BCF) has been
Shrimp farming business is not such an evil as it is made out to be, according to a recent ICAR -sponsored (Indian Council For Agricultural Research) study. Contrary to the governmental policy
In a landmark judgment, a division bench of the Gujarat High Court, on Monday, quashed the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests' (MoEF) order of January 9 which had rejected environmental
FBI agents in surgical gloves removed boxes full of materials from the home of a researcher on Sunday, a day after he was released from jail when tests showed he possessed a harmless animal vaccine
Concerned over dwindling paddy fields in Kerala, the state government is encouraging the use of imported mechanised paddy-seeding transplanters by offering subsidies to make rice cultivation
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has been urged to intervene once again in the matter pertaining to the mass suicides of farmers in Andhra Pradesh in the last two
Dr. Marc K. Hellerstein, associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has a method for precisely measuring cell creation. He replaces a hydrogen atom on glucose molecules with the
Scientists from the University of Delaware and Rutgers State University in New Jersey and Diversa Corp. report in the journal Nature that Pompeii hydrothermal vent worm survives greater extremes of
