VHAI : The unprecedented growth of health-destructive industries like liquor, tobacco, chemiclas and pesticides, and promotion of profit-driven privatised health care spell disaster for the health

Four former prime ministers, leaders of political parties and several eminents citizens today stressed the need to immediately formulate a comprehensive policy on agriculture in the wake of suicides

Activists of an international campaign launched to stop the US-based RiceTec Inc's attempt to patent basmati are targeting an unusual person--the prince of an European principality. Prince Hans-Adam

The Andhra Pradesh government is in the process of evolving a comprehensive policy to promote the use of fly ash in construction activity. The government is looking in to the existing gaps with

Indian pharmaceutical major Cipla says it may hit the local market with its version of US giant Pfizer's anti-impotency blockbuster Viagra in six

The US justice department and 20 states formally filed antitrust law-suits against Microsoft Corp today, launching what may be one of the biggest battles in history with big business. The antitrust

In a landmark judgement, the Orissa High Court has asked the state government to evict all encroachers from the Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary on coast. The court also has directed the state to

The power minister, Mr P R Kumaramangalam, announced massive bonanza for the state's power sector. Central assistance worth Rs 15,000 crore was doled out for either setting up new power projects or

The Haryana State Electricity Board has signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) for setting up four liquid fuel based power projects each of 25

With the department of economic affairs refusing to recommend any matching grant of UNDP funded jute developing projects, all the on-going projects have been