India has a strong case against the patent on basmati rice, granted recently to an American company Rice Tec by the US Patant Office, said some top officials and agriculture
Hoechst Marion Ropussel Ltd, has introduced a new anti-epilepsy drug "Frisium" in India. The drug is effective in treating chronic therapy resistant epilepsy and is suitable for use as an adjuvant
Renewed forest fires in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province could bring last year's choking haze back to Malaysia and Singapore, meteorological experts and environmentalist warned on
The Honduran government announced on Thursday it would inquire into specific allegations that pesticides which were used by Standard Fruit Company on its banana plantations led children to be born
The Indian Paper makers Association has offered to work jointly with the government to reforest the rapidly dwindling forest cover in the country.According to a statement released by the organisation
The Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FrIht) and the Indian Institute of Science are organising a four-day international conference on medicinal plants in Bangalore from
The thousands of tourists who will throng Goa's beaches in the forthcoming summer months will be at the risk of catching malaria, as the infection attains near-epidemic proportions.According to
The National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has launched a nationwide campaign to save mahseer, the famous game fish of India which is
Tata Iron and Steel Company Ltd has received a return on environment (RoE) partnership award from Betzdearborn for improvement of the water management systems at its Jamshedpur works that have
INDAL Aluminium Co(Indal) and the environmentalists are at loggerheads over the restart of their bauxite mining operations in the lush Western Ghat forests of Maharashtra. While environmentalists
