The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed a self-propelled paddy transplanter to reduce the back-breaking manual drudgery of women involved in rice plantation in muddy waters.

A proposal to notify the Rajaji national park in the western U.P. hills may run into rough weather with the Van Gujjars, a pastoral forest-dwelling tribe, threatening to move the Supreme Court for

A new fully "Indian" mobile health clinic will be launched here at the Capital's All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on January 9 as part of its revised and invigorated urban outreach

The MCD intends to relocate 30,000 jhuggis from the commercial and utility project lands in the current year. These families will be provided plots of 12.5 sq.mts. size in various areas at Nasirpur,

An integrated action for hospital waste-management, covering collection and safe disposal, was drawn at the end of a one-day workshop on "Hospital Waste Management" here today. It was organised by

Nearly 35 per cent of the children born in Gujarat suffer from low birth weight, less than 2.5 kg at the time of their birth, and about 65 per cent of women still deliver their babies at home without

Following the recent prohibition of professional blood donation, the Delhi Government was gearing up to make available safe and quality blood to patients, the Delhi Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan

At least 5,000 children in the age group of one to six years will be tested, in a project to study the lead toxicity in the blood of children in the age group of 1-6 years, launched today at the All

The Madhya Pradesh Forest Minister, Mr. Shiv Netam, has informed the State Wildlife Advisory Board that the tiger population in the State, which stood at 912 in 1993, has now gone up to 927. Some

Alarmed at the partial damage to pulses, mustard and wheat rabi crop in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, due to prolonged cloudy weather, rain and hail, the Union Agriculture