The Health Ministry is negotiating with the World Bank for a $100 million term loan for setting up a chain of quality testing laboratories in the country. The laboratories would be authorised to
Researchers have found an altered gene that helps to explain why some people infected with the Acquired Immuno Defeciency Syndrome virus remain healthy and alive for years after their infection. In
Telco is proposing to commercially produce compact, efficient and economically viable vehicles which use alternative fuels within the next two years. The company has already made a start by launching
The World Bank has announced a $60 million loan to support the first phase of power sector restructuring and development programme in Haryana, which aims at meeting power requirement for the
A massive programme of genetic improvement and conservation of goat breeds is underway at the world's only full-fledged research centre for goats under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research
A United Nations weapons inspection team whose chief, American Scott Ritter, was accused by Iraq of being a US spy, is leaving Baghdad today giving Iraq a moral vicotry in its current face-off with
In an effort to protect the Olive Ridley sea turtles, an endangered species, the eastern regional headquarters of the coast guard has set up six special "environment camps" for the NCC cadets on the
A Barcelona lawyer, has filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against Spain's state run tobacco company, seeking $400,000 in damages for the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in
In an experiment described as flabbergasting, US scientists shined a bright light on the backs of human knees and , in some mysterious way reset the master biological clock in the human brain.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco, the second largest cigarette company in the United States, sought for decades to reverse the declining sales of its brands by developing aggressive marketing proposals to
