After being the first political party to come out with detailed agenda on the environment in its manifesto, the BJP-led government's fiscal proposals were expected to address some pressing

China : China's agricultural sector is struggling to meet growth targets this year as natural disasters wreak havoc and the effects of the Asian financial crisis sink in, the People's Daily said

The budget allocation of Rs 60 crore towards the long-awaited technology mission on cotton is expected to provide necessary boost to its production as well as improve the quality of the

The European Union's medicines agency confirmed that its scientific advisory committee had recommended that Pfizer Inc's impotence treatment Viagra be marketed in Europe.

Economic sanctions and the freeze on aid flows imposed by the US, Japan, Australia and some European countries are likely to cost the economy around $20 billion, according to rough estimates by the

The remainder of India's 1998 fiscal year programme under World Bank loans may suffer the same fate as the four projects worth $865 million postponed through Unites States muscle yesterday, according

Irked by the delay in payments of cane bills by the sugar factories, many cane growers in Uttar Pradesh have opted for mentha cultivation as a more lucrative crop. Mentha is a basic ingredient for

India, Pakistan and Nepal have agreed for boosting up regional cooperation to tackle environmental problems in South Asia. At a recent seminar organised by the Unites States Information Service

Chilika , Asia's biggest salt water lake spread over 1,100 square kilomentres, is choking with an ever-increasing silt load and spreading nets of prawn culturists. Crass commercialism in the form of

An amazing case of a loan write-off by the government of India, which along with interest and penal interest exceeds Rs 1.23 crore, 25 years after it was given to farmers for agricultural pumpsets in