The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has entered into a landmark agreement with the Kottakkal(Kerala)based Aarya Vaidhya Shala to prospect new drug molecules from traditional ayurvedic

Ellen Schaengold, chief of World Bank's social development division, yesterday said that the Land Acquisition Act needed to be modified further in view of the country's changing socio-economic

The government is planning a fresh policy package for the deep sea fishing industry with the aim of increasing direct assistance to

The paper industry has offered to reforest two million hectare of degraded forest lands. Indian paper manufacturers, as producers of wood-based products and good corporate citizens, are committed to

The Environment Pollution Authority, set up by the government to enforce pollution control norms in Delhi, has become functional. The apex environment regulatory authority has suo moto powers to take

The shortage of life saving blood has become a permanent problem, owing to the ill-eqipped blood banks and the general ignorance among the volunteers donors. Compounding the situation is a recent

The World Wide Fund-India and a number of eminent environment conservationists have taken exception to the environment and forests ministry's decision to allow felling of certain categories of the

Canadian High Commissioner Peter Walker and WWF secretary general Samar Singh yesterday launched a nature conservation project in Maharashtra, Goa, Bengal, MP, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh. The

The first meeting of the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) assembly will be held at the Vigyan Bhavan here from April 1-3,

Four more domestic units have been allowed to export seafood and marine products to the European Union(EU) thus taking the total to 14. In November 1997, the EU had lifted the ban on Indian fish and