Cong.: The Congress(I), the very party which had initiated the process of bringing in foreign investment in the power sector- its first success being Enron's investment in Dabhol in Maharashtra -

The Andhra Pradesh Government has asked the mahyco Monsanto Biotech (I) Private Limited to stop forthwith the field trials of Bollgard gene seeds of cotton going on in seven districts in the state.

study: For the first time since 1993, global emissions of carbon from the combustion of fossil fuels declined last yar by 0.5 per cent to 6.32 billion tonnes despite moderate growth in the world

With the major rivers in spate the flood situation in Bihar remained grim as the death toll reached 252

experts: Conceding that there existed several lacunae in the country's environmental laws, the Chairperson of the National Environmental Appellate Authority, Mr. Justice (Retd.) N. Venkatachala,

People's participation in the population control programmes, improvement in reproductive and child health care, active association of various Government departments and abolition of gender

The Apollo Hospitals' Heart and Kidney Centre, Visakhapatnam, claims to have performed a complicated surgery recently on a three-day-old baby who was suffering from congenital

The gas disaster and several issues linked with it continue to present a disastrous picture, a good 14 years after the worst industrial calamity struck Bhopal killing thousands and leaving at least a

A new technology to tranform stalks of banana plant into high-quality paper, rope, cardboard and twine has been developed by Australian researchers. It is based on an ancient egyptian technique of

New studies have boosted hopes that brains damaged by diseases such as alzheimer's could be regenerated. Researchers examined the brains of five cancer patients after they died. Doctors had injected