Over 2,500 product patent applications in the agricultural, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors will have to be opened and examined, and patents granted wherever the case permits, in case India
A US federals appeals court delivered a resounding victory to US cigarette makers by ruling that the Clinton Administration had acted outside its powers in giving the Food and Drug Adminstration
Nepal is to reinforce its attempt to clean up the national park around Mount Everest-dubbed the world's highest garbage dump by critics-with a ban on the sale of bottled
The Minister of State for Home, Mr. R. Roshan Baig, ruled out the opening of quarries in the Kollegal and adjoining areas in Karnataka as gelatine sticks and other explosives, likely to be used,
Pollution test of vehicles has failed to achieve the desired result of improving Nepal's pollution level even after two years of implementation, traffic police officials say. The officials point out
Landslide has swept away a drinking water construction site in the Jante VDC of Morang district of Nepal because of the flooded Teliya Khola. A total of 864 families of ward Nos 1,2,8 and 9 have been
A fresh debate on euthanasia has bubbled up in France since, a fortnight ago, a nurse in a hospital near Paris was put on trial for helping patients to die. French law, as almost everywhere else in
The ministry of environment and forests has allowed private operators of cellular and basic telecom services to lay cables on forest land. The Ministry is working out the compensation the companies
