Marketing of cement is taking a new dimension. Product segmentation, which was till recently more on the basis of various grades in the ordinary portland cement (OPC) such as 33 grade, 43 grade and

The Centre has released Rs 46.2173 crore out of its total share of 146.7426 crore for the six on going-schemes for boosting crop production. The Centre decided to continue the six schemes with a view

Angry fishermen stopped short of blockading a key shipping passage, as they had threatened, but warned that protests could encalate if a top Canadian official did not meet with them.

The US Food and Drug administration gave approval to Eli Lilly & Co.'s Gerzar anti-cancer compound for first-line therapy against non-small-cell lung cancer, a potentially significant development

Aditya Birla group company Indo-Gulf Fertilizers and PowerGen of UK have joined hands to set up a 567-mw power plant at Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh. The new plant christened as Rosa Thermal Power

Power minister P R Kumaramangalam on Thursday said his ministry had constituted a monitoring cell on fast track power projects to help iron out all problems and remove bottlenecks facing private

Maharashtra government plans to release two separate policies on agro processing and bio-technology to attract private sector investment in a big way.

India's row with the US on the latter's ban of imports of indian shrimp has become a serious issue in US domestic politics. America's environmental lobby is opposed to the dilution of the country's

Over 50 lakh tonnes of coal is consumed by the plantation industry to process tea. The burning of fossil fuels, which involves heavy transportation cost and large-scale atmospheric pollution, can be

The plastics industry has been asked to regulate its polybag sector or face total ban on manufacture of all polythene carry