In what could be termed as the biggest industrial severance, the board of Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL) --a Coal India Ltd's (CIL) subsidiary--has approved separation of 68,000 miners and shutting

The Ambanis do not believe in doing things by halves. Reliance Petroleum has submitted to the government a plan that is breathtaking in its sweep and scope: a pipeline network covering 3,000 km and

Heavy unseasonal rains in western India have partially damaged the cotton and groundnut crop, which could cut the country's winter oilseeds output, trade officials said recently. They said rains had

The rethink by the new Goa government on allowing private power producers to sell directly to industrial and commercial consumers has hit Reliance-Salgaonkar Ltd's (RSL) Goa power project, which is

Indian teas have once again been put under the microscope. The European Tea Committee (ETC) in its latest report on surveilance on tea for 1994-97 has pointed to the presence of unlimited and banned

The Punjab government has suggeested to the planning commission to formulate a comprehensive agriculture policy in consultation with major foodgrain producing states to step up investments in the

UN : Not a single country in the world is unaffected by the AIDS epidemic and 16,000 new people are infected by the virus everyday, executive director of UNAIDS Peter Piot has said. AIDS is not just

Amartya : Economics Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said that the basic problem with India is that it has ignored education, health care and other aspects of 'social opportunity building' . At a

Two years after the process of environmental quality certification started in India, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) says the country's citizens will soon be breathing freer. An increasing

The desert biosphere reserve, facing threat from fast changing habitats and degradation of ecosystem, might result in desertification and depletion of plant wealth, a top taxonomist has