Women with two to five alcoholic drinks every day have a 41 per cent higher risk for breast cancer than women who drink no alcohol, says the Journal of the American Medical Association. And women who
A South and South-East Asian workshop on access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge would be held at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) between February 22 and 25. The
That the persisting arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh was possibly one of the largest mass slow poisoning cases in the world was brought to sharp focus during the recently-concluded
A filling station to dispense propane, a clean automotive fuel, will start functioning in about six weeks. Set up under a pilot project being implemented by SHV Energy India Ltd, a fully-owned
India's leading rice breeder, Dr. E.A. Siddiq, has said that the use of 'basmati' name by the US Rice Tec Inc to its variety was "unacceptable." Dr. Siddiq and co-researchrs developed the world's
Govt given time to table alternative plan: A full bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday granted time till March 31 to the State Government to file the final report with regard to alternative
The ministry of environment and forests has proposed to introduce a parallel public transport network, running on compressed natural gas (CNG), in Delhi. THis is to lower the use of petrol and diesel
For tribals struggling for survival in the Narmada basin in Gujarat, the World Bank may have brought a new lease of life. The Asmal-Jain commission, set up by international agencies, will allow
India and the US have agreed to swap sensitive data gleaned from their satellites. Specific areas of cooperation identified under an MoU signed in Washington include weather analysis and forecasting
The Indian High Commissioner to South Africa, Mr. Lakshmi Chand Jain, has been named as the Vice Chairperson of the World Commission on Dams (WCD). The announcement was made in Cape Town yesterday by
