The 52nd session of the Regional Committee for South-East Asia ended in Dhaka yesterday with the World Health Organisation recommending urgent action for tobacco control and HIV/AIDS surveillance in

Kuwait's leading fish farm has dumped 51 tonnes of dead fish, a newspaper reported today after the government said a poison scare sweeping, the emirate was no cause for alarm and "well undercontrol."

Half the population is urban: By the year 2020, there will be estimated 550 million people living in urban areas and five years after the India's urban population will make up half of its population.

New drug will not be launched and big investments would not flow into India unless there was a strong patents regime in the country, according to an international expert on

An Indian graduate student has built what is believed to be the world's smallest web-server. According to a report published on the Internet today by the University of Massachusetts(UM),

Maharashtra Government has banned the consumption of gutka in the state through an amendment in the Food Adulteration Prevention Act 1955 and Maharashtra Food Adulteration Prevention Act 1962.The

Stunned by a swift opeation launched by animal activists, India's entire scientific community has joined hands to condemn the confiscation of laboratory monkeys from the National Centre for

The nation will make its millennium-ene assault on the polio vcirus with a revised strategy this year. The polio eradication programme, which sets 2000 asthe date to make India polio fre, now asks

Scriptwriter Salim Khan submitted his three-point plan for environmental protection to the Bombay High Court. Khan promises to plant 500 trees in the forest surrounding Panvel to involve film

Maharashtra has put on hold all new power projects until the new Government takes charge at the centre. The move follows directives issued from NEw Delhi, sources