Heart patients in Calcutta urgently in need of a pacemaker but having no where to buy one, costing anything between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh, have now something to rejoice about. An NGO, Legal Aid

In a move that may revolutionise the Indian automobile sector, the Government is about to introduce Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as auto fuel. A bill to amend the existing law will be introduced

An indigenous oral cholera vaccine, ideal for tropical countries, has been developed and is undergoing trial on humans. The vaccine has worked well on animals and researchers are testing its

In alarming contrast to the situation when oral cancer cases in the country showed a downward trend 20 years ago, a group of epidemiologists associated with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Six cotton growers of Madhya Pradesh, five of them from the Vidarbha region, allegedly committed suicide last week following widespread damage to the cotton crop due to unseasonal rain and their

Even as Karnataka Agriculture Minister C. Byre Gowda declared yesterday that trials of the terminator gene technology would not be allowed in the state, Monsanto, the MNC accused of conducting these

Three NGOs today demanded that the Central Government make public all the details relating to Monsanto's trials involving genetically engineered seeds in various states, including Andhra Pradesh and

In an ominous portent for the already floundering state economy, the World Bank has removed Maharashtra from its position of top priority state in the country. Citing flouting of norms, the Bank

In a surprising new research finding, scientists said the combination of an old antiviral drug and an early biotechnology product can reduce the hepatitis C virus to undetectable levels in many

"This planet does not belong to grown-ups only," say eight kids aged between 10 and 12 representing India at the second International Children Conference being organised by the United Nations