The Vice-President, Mr. Krishan Kant, has called for a well-coordinated and sustained multipronged effort to achieve the goal of eliminating leprosy by the year 2000. For this, a thorough change in
About 200 scientists from different parts of the country and various embassies participated in a two-day national symposium on "Sustainable Aquaculture" which concluded here over the week-end. The
A wonder drug named "Baraka Oil" made from Black Cumin seed oil extracted from a plant called Nigella sativa is now being marketed in India. This preparation is being used in ancient times from the
Genetic disorders are one of the major reasons in the less developed countries for children being admitted into hospitals. In these countries, one out of 50 newborn babies has a major congenital
India faces a piquant situation when it sends its delegation for the fourth conference of parties (COP-IV) to the Basel Convention being held in Malaysia from February 23 to 27. It is somewhat
The government may alter the liquid fuel policy and offer condensate as an alternate fuel to promoters of power projects, who are proposing to use either naptha, furnace oil or LSHS. The government
The Orissa government has shortlisted four domestic and four overseas utility companies for diversting a 49 per cent stake in state-owned Orissa Power Generation Corporation. The four foreign firms
The World Bank has sanctioned a loan of $106.1 millions to the Punjab Government for purchase of imaging equipments,ambulances and other vehicles to provide an effective health services.The loan,
The country's chicken population has registered the fastest growth in the Asia Pacific region in the last decade, according to a report of the Bangkok-based United Nations Economic and Social
Tribal leaders from all over the country decided at a meeting here on Sunday to mobilise people for self-rule in areas where the "indigenous population " is in sizable numbers. They also urged the
