The recent rediscovery of natural medicine, often referred to as complementary or alternative medicine, by the Western World, has fuelled the sharply escalating commercial demand for herbal products
Researchers evaluating the role of institutional finance in the development of fisheries infrasturcture in the country feel the marine fisheries sector may be over capitalised leading to declining
The Indian Crop Protection Association (ICPA) claims that the spate of suicides by farmers in Andhra Pradesh caught in the cotton debt trap is the result of a poor agricultural credit system in
Animal rights groups from across the globe are up in arms against the State Government over its "callous" attitude to the death of thousands of Olive Ridley sea tutles along the Orissa coast.
Australia was accused today of flouting a worldwide ban on toxic waste disposal just a day before a global conference on the control of hazardous waste. Environmental watchdog Greenpeace said it had
At least 30 persons have died and more than 10 lakh have fallen sick in a flu epidemic sweeping Japan, reports said on Saturday. In all, 14 lakh people have developed symptoms of influenza this
The Supreme Court has dismissed a public interest petition challenging the Union government's December circular lifting the ceiling on the export of wheat and its products "ignoring the fact that
For some time, at least, all the flyash from Delhi Vidyut Board's Indraprastha thermal power station is not just being dumped as waste, occupying spans of precious land. The Delhi government's public
Doctors at a Delhi hospital have claimed that they have successfully used a new method-percutaneous transluminal myocardial revascularisation (PTMR) - to treat heart patients who are not suited for
