The European food industry has decided voluntarily to label foods containing genetically modified soyabeans or maize, after member states failed to agree on common EU labelling
The Czech government is to make radical changes in the management of CEZ, the state electricity company, because of concern over fresh delays in the construction of a nuclear reactor which seeks to
Starch is the largest single energy source in the human diet. So a discovery at Oxford University of a way to increase the starch content of crops such as potato, maize and rice could have
Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd (TNPL), a Tamil Nadu Government undertaking, has committed in the Madras High Court that it would stop discharging its effluents into the Pugalpur channel within 3
India has banned the import of poultry and its products as well as other birds from all the countries where avian influenza disease is prevalent. The agriculture ministry has communicated this
Avian influenza infection, the killer "bird flu" virus, which has led to the slaughter of six million chickens in Hong Kong, cannot be transferred from poultry to human beings, the World Poulty
A new fully "Indian" mobile health clinic will be launched here at the Capital's All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on January 9 as part of its revised and invigorated urban outreach
The MCD intends to relocate 30,000 jhuggis from the commercial and utility project lands in the current year. These families will be provided plots of 12.5 sq.mts. size in various areas at Nasirpur,
At least 15 Ashok trees were illegally felled at the official residence of former Congress MP Manik Rao Gavit on Monday while he was away to his constituency Nandovar, Maharashtra. The Forest
