The Haryana Government spent Rs 44.40 crores under Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme for providing supplementary nutrition to 12.13 lakh children and pregnant and nursing mothers
A multi-agency planning meeting was held in Kathmandu as the first step towards promoting the importance of sanitation and highlighting its impact on development. At the meeting were represenatives
A total of 25 AIDS patients have been identified in Assam since the monitoring of the dreaded disease was initiated in 1988. Out of this highest number of cases was detected in 1997 (12), followed by
Poaching, poisoning or trappings are taking a heavy toll of wildlife, including the tiger, which is fast dwindling in the Kumaon and Garhwal hills. If environment laws are not corrected immediately,
With the discovery of a gene implicated in prostate cancer, French biotech firm Genset SA has closed the gap with U.S. rivals in a high stakes genetic research race. Genset scientists have found a
The deadline set by the Green Bench of the Madras High Court for the dyeing and bleaching units at Tirupur to start the effluent treatment plants by May 11, failing which they must be closed down,
More than 5,000 fishermen's families living along the 27 km long coast from Kattumavadi to Enathi signed what they described as a 'Magna Carta' urging the State and Central Governments to strictly
The Punjab government has agreed to constitute the Punjab Medical Council, the demand for the setting up of which was raised by the Punjab branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA).
The world's first commercial phone service through satellites is likely to be launched within five months. The first of the block to offer mobile communications service through hand held phones is
The end is in sight for the current El Nino weather phenomenon-but many countries still face weeks of upset climate. The long stretch of abonormally warm water in the central Pacific which is
