The Indian Government has given US corporate giant Monsanto official permissions to set up a specialised research unit to develop new crop strains within the campus of the prestigious Indian

The Japanese Government has agreed to extend grant assistance of Yen 300,000,000 (approximately Rs. 9.3 crores) for the increasing food production under KR-2 programme and Yen 50,000,000

In a move of far-reaching consequences, the Meerut Municipal Corporation has initiated action against the use of cheap polythene bags by traders, including the sale of milk and liquor in polythene

A strong case was made out today for ending scavenging in the country by the speakers at the 28th Foundation day function of Sulabh International Social Service Organisation in New

The Karnataka State Cabinet at its meeting today decided to raise certain fundamental questions regarding the powers of the judiciary in its appeal against the February 27 judgment of the Karnataka

The Central Pollution Control Board has come out with a booklet on 'management of municipal solid waste' based on field surveys carried out in different towns and cities across the coutry. A release

Planter Energy Network(PEN), Madurai, has agreed to entrust to the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) the work of licensing and commercial exploitation of its technologies and

The Indian remote Sensing Satellite, IRS-P4 (Oceansat-1), to be launched later this year by the Polar satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV), will carry a eight-band colour monitor and multi-frequency

Pounding rainstorms have turned southern California dairy farms into swamps so thick that cows cannot walk or sleep, and 6,500 of them have dropped dead of

Before the clock ticks away into the next millennium, space will be invaded by unique audio-braodcasting satellites, meant solely for the developing nations, Dr. U.R.Rao, member of the Space