With sale of mustard oil now banned in both Delhi and West Bengal, focus has shifted to an instrument developed at Lucknow, which could help housewives detect 'argemone'adulteration in the oil. The
Breaches in the Turtipar-Srinagar embankment in Ballia district led to flash floods in over 100 villages on Friday while heavy rainfall in other parts of the state made the overall flood situation
Many activist groups in Madhya Pradesh would jointly launch a protest against "anti-people" policies of the State Government by organising a rally of tribals at Hoshangabad on Septemeber 4. This will
The Municipal Committee of Delhi today claimed that cholera positive cases had shown a major downward trend in the past three weeks. There were only 68 cases this week, 74 cases in the last week and
The Bihar Government today launched a special drive to identify dropsy cases in the wake of reports that over 20 people have caught this killer disease in the state.
Andhra Pradesh Congress on Thursday accused Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu of failure to take any initiative to resolve Almatti dam dispute with Karnataka and asked him to exert pressure on the
As more persons succumbed to dropsy in the Capital after comsuming adulterated mustard oil, five more states--UP, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa and Assam--on Friday banned the sale of mustard
Experts have warned that toxic argemone oil, used for adulterating mustard oil, can find a passage into the body not just through food, but even by a friendly massage.
Test results showing record levels of dangerous parasites in Sydney's water are 'not believable at face value'' and the real culprits are harmless algae, a consultant to the inquiry into the
The British university which is holding in its storage 200 strains of fungi collected in Thailand is likely to return them after months of dispute. In a sudden change of stance, the University of
