The Union agriculture ministry has sent the new draft Bill on plant variety protection deleting the provisions on farmers rights to the Cabinet for approval. The new draft is named Plant Variety
Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals(I) Ltd is developing a single shot four-in-one India specific vaccine for dreaded disease like hepatitis B, diptheria, tetnus and whooping cough. The vaccine,
An Indian firm is launching an ayurvedic memory drug in the UK targeted at sufferers of Alzeimer's disease. Memory Plus, developed by the Delhi-based Velvet International, is derived from the Brahmi
One-tenth of the world's blind live in India and the country faces gross inadequacy of opthalmic personnel and lack of services in remote areas. Of the estimated 38 million blind people in the world,
The Health Ministry is concerned over a WHO proposal to change its policy of allocation of financial resources to its member-countries. The proposal which has already been approved by the WHO
The World bank has suggested that India should revamp its Central Road Fund (CRF) and make the users pay for road services by way of road user charges. The Bank has called for setting up a strong
Special secretary to the lieutenant-governor of Delhi Kiran Bedi and actress Dina Pathak launched Gobar Times, the children's supplement of the magazine Down to Earth, and the environment education
Board : The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has said old ships with a certain level of contamination be classified as hazardous and be put under the Basel Convention. The CPCB guideline would
To make its contribution to the cause of primary health care for the poor and the downtrodden, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation has been running a social marketing campaign to achieve the goal of "Health
CAG : Delhi has been facing water shortage and contamination of the commodity due to gross under-utilisaiton of rainey wells, generation and distribution losses and improper treatment. The 18 rainey
