The hearing of the public interest litigation (PIL) filed against Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL) and the Government of Gujarat by the Gujarat Navodaya Mandal for the deemed illegal clearance of 18
The United Nations is getting ready to fight a potentially new global threat-nuclear terrorism. A UN ad hoc committee will begin a two week session later this month to formulate a new international
A high-yielding variety of sugarcane has been developed by scientists at the G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. This variety, Co. Pant 84212, has been released for cultivation by the
The Department of Atomic Energy has set up two demonstration plants for food irradiation at Mumbai and Jodhpur for test-marketing and consumer response surveys to pave the way for the establishment
Democratic members of the U.S. Senate have blocked action on a Republican backed Bill to ban human cloning, saying it also could slow the hunt for cancer, Alzheimer's , diabetes and many other
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) will evolve a long term policy for mineral exploration by mining industries in the forest rich areas of the
The committee of secretaries will step in to take a final view on de-reservation of the alcohol industry due to sharply conflicting opinions on whether it should be implemented.
Rights groups and the government are celebrating a longsought court ban against cutting women's genitals , viewing it as a rare victory in their quest to better the lot of Egyptian
A pack of 48 stump-tailed monkeys long thought to be extinct in Malaysia has been spotted near the Malaysian-thai border recently, a newspaper reported on
