Weeks after the murder of the Australian leprosy worker Graham Staines and his two minor sons, the country's top leprosy official today admitted India won't be able to achieve the World Health

Alarmed by recurring floods in Surat every monsoon, the State Government has decided to develop a modern forecasting system at a cost of about Rs 22 crore by 2000. Under the system, for which work

Nearly one-third of the sheesham trees, Dalbergia, have been damaged by a fungi attack in the mid-hills of Himachal Pradesh and Kandi belt of Hoshiarpur. Worse still, the fungi, genoderma lucidum and

Dikshit tells babus to get their act together: The Delhi administration has finally reacted to the death of buffaloes due to protozoan infection of the blood in Nanagli Sakrawati Dairy Colony in

Eighty rare birds have reportedly gone missing from the Chhat Bir Zoo on the Chandigarh-Patiala highway since February 3. A formal complaint was lodged at Dera Bassi police station on February 3, in

The United States has taken India to the World Trade organisation(WTO) against the patent ordinance and talks between the two nations under dispute settlement understanding (DSU) will be held next

Russian officials have scrapped the Mir space station's much-hyped space mirror experiment after the shiny metal object got stuck and failed to properly unfurl. It was a bitter disappointment for

South Korea and Japan have resolved disputes over how to implement a landmark fisheries accord which sparked bitter protests by fishermen in the two nations, officials said here. The agreement came

India is still trying to build its case against the US patent to the Texan company Rice Tec Inc for basmati rice, Commerce Ministry sources said today. An expert group formed by the Government to

BJP to PM: Five Madhya Pradesh BJP leaders have urged Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to take steps to treat the remaining 20 wards of Bhopal as gas-affected and ensure payment of compensation to