The Rajasthan government has decided to ban smoking at notified public places as well as public vehicles. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the state council of ministers

The Supreme Court prohibited the practice of using bovine-extracted haemoglobin in durgs in a ruling on August 12 declaring it unsafe for human consumption. Pharmaceutical companies have, for the

Pig virus no threat: Was Dhani Ram Baruah, the controversial surgeon from Guwahati who transplanted a pig's heart into an ailing patient, a maverick who got snuffed out as he was probably well ahead

The Infocity the Gujarat government is planning to set up on the sprawling 200 acres of the government land near Gandhinagar may lead to the felling of about 40,000 trees. Though the government is

The mysterious mountains between Vietnam and Laos have done it again. They have served up a very rare dish: a striped rabbit of a genus known as

From abalone poachers to legal whale-watch operators, the fishermen of this coastal hamlet have seen a dramatic reversal of fortune since a ban was lifted on the use of boats to view whales in South

While the World Bank's decision to o slow on disbursing loan for some of its projects in West bengal drew angry reactions from the state government last week, the 16th Subject Committee Report on

Dangerous flyash: Rain water has collected in the low-lying areas in the zoo where the ground level is at least 5 meter below that of the Yamuna. There is no natural drainage system to pump out the

In an unusual operation which highlights the problem of plastic bags, four veterinary surgeons in Bhug removed 4,000 plastic bags from the stomach of

Over 200 persons were affected by gas leak allegedly from the National Rayon Corporation (NRC) plant in Ambivali near Kalyan at 7.30 pm. Slums and villages near the NRC's bleaching plant were the