Making agri-businuss sense : The Reliance Group is strategically locating land in Madhya Pradesh and Goa to develop wastelands for agro-business. It is believed to be buying huge chunks of
It is now the turn of tree plantation companies after non banking finance companies (NBFCs) to feel the hear in anticipation of stringent SEBI guidelines designed to purge malpractices in the sector.
As many as 48 agro-based paper manufacturing units in western Uttar Pradesh and more than 100 paper mills in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, producing approximately 3,000 tonnes of
For the past two decades, water from a million or more wells sunk into the alluvum of the Ganga delta by agencies such as UNICEF, the World Bank and Britain's Overseas Development Administration has
The Ministry of Public Health of Thailand announced the construction of village water pipeline systems worth some two billion baht to cope with the drought expected this summer. Minister Rakkiat
Speaking at a conference on the economics of tobacco control in Cape Town, on Thursday that an increase in tax on tobacco will have the dual effect of reducing cigarette consumption, while boosting
The Minister of Health of Portugal Maria de belem, started a bit of a panic when she told a radio station that two patients in Portuguese hospitals had been diagnosed as having the new strain of CJD,
Scientists say they have been able to reverse the effects of Parkinson's disease in laboratory rats by transplanting tissue from the rodents' necks into their brains.
About 25 non-governmental organisations held a demonstration outside the American Information Centre in the Capital today against the likely US military attack on
The United States has offered "limited funds" towards the first meeting of disaster relief experts in Bangkok later this year, the Thailand's foregin Ministry's East Asia Department deputy chief
