The Minisry of Industry has accounced that henceforth entrepreneurs who wish to obtain approval from the Government for setting up any wood-based project should obtain prior clerance from the

Potential exists for production of power from biomass, especially, biomass waste treatment which has an advantage of pollution control. With the changes in government policy and available incentives,

FAO : Global fish production was virtually unchanged in 1997, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said. Production reached 122 million tonnes in 1997 from a revised estimate of 121 m.t. in

Ants that have grown their own fungus farms for 50 million years could ofer valuable insights to human farmers, researchers have said. They said they found that ants regularly swap seed crops of

The US scientists and a commercial baker have said they have developed a fat substitute that will make cookies, cakes and ice cream healthy as well as tasty. The group told a national meeting of the

The World Bank has committed most of the funds for a programme of comprehensive afforestation being planned by the Kerala Government and envisaging an outlay of Rs. 183 crores. The first major part

To get India free from leprosy, the Government of India has adopted Mofified Leprosy Elimination Campaign Programme (MLEC) at the instance of World Health Organisation. The objective of this

Contrary to the government's expectations that a bountiful post-monsoon harvest would substantially rein in the current inflationary levels, latest estimates of foodgrain output made by the

The Centre has embarked upon an exercise to review the Drug Policy governing the pharmaceutical sector of the country . This would in effect mean a total rehauling of the Drug (price Control) Order,

Nine landfill sites have been identified by the Government for solid waste disposal and for hazardous chemcial waste, according to Mr K S Sripathi, Secretary, Environment and Forests, Government of