UN officials say that Iraqi children are dying as a result of poor health care, nutrition and sanitation. The UN's children agency believes a third of all children under five are chronically
Taiwan has agreed to lease land to Bayer, the German pharmaceuticals concern, to build a controversial US$1.5 bn chemical plant after years of delay over the environmental concerns. As hundreds of
A highly controversial backbench bill to ban foxhunting in UK looked destined to die after making little progress in the House of Commons. After five hours of bitter debate, oppostion time wasting
After years of negotiations, the United States and Ukraine agreed to a nuclear cooperation deal that will prevent a Ukrainian company from providig a key component to a nuclear reactor Russia is
"Kaira one of the most progressive and prosperous districts and the main producer of tobacco in Gujarat and, thus rightly called the 'zone of golden leaves' is now gradually being known as the 'zone
A recent study undertaken by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) has brought to light that the quantum of transmission and distribution losses in the country far exceeds the actual
The Indian Government has given US corporate giant Monsanto official permissions to set up a specialised research unit to develop new crop strains within the campus of the prestigious Indian
India will receive assistance from the United States for reducing pollution and growing economically in a climate-friendly way. The development assistance account includes an increase of $44 million
A seminar held in Mumbai on Thursday on 'Physics with Cooled and Trapped Atoms and Ions (PCTAI-98)' is the first meeting in the exotic field of cooled and trapped atoms and ions, organised in India.
The US space agency announced on Thursday that an orbiting robot craft has discovered that there may be enough water on the moon to one day support a human colony there and to use the lunar base as a
