Tea planters in Darjeeling in West Bengal have launched a campaign to protect "Darjeeling" branded tea from alleged foreign imitation, trade officials said. The Darjeeling Tea Planters Assocation

India has received the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU's) nod to launch 56 new satellites in 29 orbits. This is the first substantial hike in its space real estate which at present

The Environment and Forest ministry is close to finalising a national action plan for implementation of all the government-initated pollution prevention and control measures within a fixed

Monsanto, the US life sciences group which has become one of the most aggressive players in agricultural biotechnology, is to buy the international seed operations of Cargill, the privately owned US

The procedural bottlenecks coming in the way of speedy environmental clearances to industrial projects on account of the restrictive provisions of the Forest conservation Act of 1980 are proposed to

Scientists here have identified for the first time a strain of a popular south Indian cotton variety that can be multiplied through tissue

Ahmedabad-based Core Healthcare has received approval from the drug controller for a novel anaesthetic, 'Profol' which enables precise control of the state of unconsciousness. The drug is being

The 12th Indian Seafood Fair will be held in Kochi next year, between February 26 and 28, Marine Products Export development Authority (MPEDA) chairman K B Pillai said here

The World Bank yesterday intiated agreement to support India's $240 million (roughly Rs 1,000 crore) National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP). This involves a loan totalling $196 million from

The Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) plans to extend an escrow guarantee cover to Dabhol Power Company's (DPC) second phase of the power project. Due to the non-availability of a central