The Assam Government will soon enact a bill to control the use of polythene and other non-biodegradable garbage in the State in order to preserve the environment. Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar

The DAV Research Society for Health has demanded an overhaul of the government's AIDS control programme due to its miserable progress so far. In a statement issued during the AIDS awareness camp,

In a major victory for India and several other complainants, the WTO early this month, ruled that a US embargo on imports of shrimps from India on environmental grounds was untenable. According to

Pharmaceutical major Ranbaxy has in a statement today stressed that it has in no way violated the law of the land in importing 50 Beagle dogs for research-related drug-testing at its laboratories in

Crores of rupees are going down the drain as the Sewerage Department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation appoints foreign consultants to oversee its projects and follows it up with apointing

The menacing gush of gas from an oil well has once again thrown into focus the problem of pilferage at the ONGC oil fields in this area.Eight days have gone by since the leak began at Well No. 402

Can US call its wines champagne, asks expert: If champagne continues to be a typical French wine and scotch whisky Scottish, no amount of American arm-twisting will be able to snatch "Basmati" from

Tuberculosis(TB) has re-emerged as the number one killer in the world. And the battle against it will mainly have to be fought in India, says Dr Thomas Frieden, WHO medical officer in India. Every

The new Agriculture Minister, Som Pal, today proposed to bring in a comprehensive agriculture policy which would maximise the use of land, water and genetic resources. He also said that the ministry

People for Animals, dubbed as the country's leargest animal welfare organisation, today served a legal notice on Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited for importing 50 Beagle dogs from the U.S.A. to conduct