Agriculture Minister Pongpol Adireksarn yesterday opened up two battlefronts simultaneously against farmers' groups and conservationists with his announced intention to revoke three cabinet
The recent excavation conducted by the Archaeological Survey of India in the temple town of Pillak under Bilonia subdivision of South Tripura district has drawn the attention of archaeologists and
A team of scientists has turned to New Zealand in an attempt to resolve the great dinosaur debate. The scientists have begun a three-year study of New Zealand'sa rocks and fossils to try to establish
Global Environment Facility, which would hold its first ever assembly beginning here on April 1, has embarked upon a plan to help Delhi become pollution free. GEF chairman Mohammed A1-Ashry said that
After an American company Rice Tech Inc., helped basmati find a breeding ground in the heart of Texas, it is the turn of tea companies to start sweating. Kenyan tea companies are keen to go a step
Ayurvedic physicians are now successfully treating cancer patients with new drugs they have formulated. They are claiming "at least 65 per cent success" in treating 73 patients, suffering from
The Government has decided to encourage development of clusters of small hydro power projects in the north-eastern States to make the area a net exporter of power to other parts of the country. The
The issue of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) has become serious with other countries laying claims for products tradionally produced in India, but had gone without patenting. Inaugurating the
For a city reeling under air pollution caused by the ever increasing number of motor vehicles, experts have called for steps to minimise travel by developing self-containing pockets for work,
The threat from multi-national companies which went all-out to patent "bhujiya" and thus command a monopoly, has forced bhujiya makers here (Bikaner) to use modern methods to produce this delicacy.
