In a spectacular improvement, the female-male ratio in UP has become 927:1000 in 1996 from 887:1000 in 1991, showing a clear fall in female infanticide and better female health in a period of six

Cadila Healthcare has entered into an agreement with Korea Green Cross Corporation to manufacture and market recombinant hepatitis-B vaccine in India. It will also be launching an anti-rabies vaccine

Environmental degradation in India will accentuate to the point of a crisis in the next 50 years if timely actions are not taken, says a study by the Delhi-based non-government research organisaiton,

Ajanta Pharma has got a product patent from the United States and South Africa for 'Carofit' an antioxidant with natural carotenoid to fight oxidative damages commonly seen in all chronic diseases

The Madhya Pradesh government has sought an assistance of Rs 700 crore from the World Bank(WB) for implementation of the second phase of state forestry project. Stating this, the chief conservator of

Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has accorded techno economic clearance for the Rs 1,470 crore Kannur combined cycle power project in

Uttar Pradesh authorities have been chargined by the realisation that a Rs 4,500 crore World Bank loan to push power sector reforms will come with strings attached to prevent them from spending the

India has stated that industrialised countries might help developing countries fight environmental degradation, since the developed world is chiefly responsible for the problem. The occasion was the

About 8.4 million hectares of land has problems which are curable. The Karnal-based Central Soil Salinity Research Institute(CSSRI) has already evolved, and successfully demonstrated in the field,

The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has found reserve of natural gas in two new fields in