US : The US message for India at WTO's trade policy review was that India was not doing enough about implementing WTO obligations, and should open up faster. US ambassador Rita Derrick Hayes called

Prabhu : A unique Environment Fund is likely to be created soon to preserve the country's bio-diversity and enlarge India's depleting forest cover. Contributions from non-government bodies,

India's economic reforms and liberalisation have contributed to a dramatic increase in economic growth in the mid 1990's says the latest review on India's Trade Policy Review (TPR) conducted by the

World Bank report : The World Bank expects India to halve its poverty and achieve universal primary education by 2015, but gender equality will prove a tough challenge as will environmental

The pesticides industry has said that poor quality chemicals are not responsible for the cottoncrop failure in Andhra Pradesh that had led to a spate of suicides among horrowed farmers there last

Union minister for environment and forests Suresh P Prabhu on Wednesday suggested setting up an environment fund and contribution of 1 per cent of the cost of all industrial projects into it.

Ayurveda will soon be available on the Internet. With the help of doctors and Ayurvedic experts, Indus Business Systems plans to launch an exclusive WEb page dedicated to the ancient science and

Report : More than 300 different bio-technology medicines are in development, including vaccines against cancer and drugs to treat a whole range of diseases, US drugmakers said on Friday. Nearly

The man-environment conflict has landed the Rs 50-crore salt manufacturing industry and as many as 3.5 lakh family members of salt-pan workers (agarias) into troubled waters. The agarias working in

Australia pulls back on two chickpeas : After basmati, it would have been the turn of chickpeas to turn videshi. But in a major victory for India, the Australian seed industry has abandoned its