The Indian silkworm which has traditionally produced rich skills can now be manipulated to produce a vaccine for hepatitis B. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bangalore have

The Central Government's proposal to constitute an authority for monitoring pollution in Delhi seems to have made no headway. Two of the three members of the authority say they haven't yet been

As health workers here clean up the last, decaying remains of 1.4 million chickens slaughtered to halt the spread of a new flu strain, a troubling question remains: Has the feared virus infected

The Madhya Pradesh Government has suspended 40 officers and other employees in connection with illegal felling of trees in Bastar district, in accordance with a Supreme Court

Even after the much condemned hunting in December and the assurance given by Union Minister Saifuddin Soz, the Jammu & Kashmir Government has chosen not to incorporate a blanket ban on hunting in the

Resentment is building up in the scientific community against the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) which, they charge, is responsible for sabotaging the country's influenza research

Mumbai study: One out of every 500 bottles of voluntary donated blood in Mumbai, screened for HIV and marked safe, can give you AIDS. This shocking revelation, made in a study conducted recently, is

Leading Indian virologists say that people returning from Hong Kong should be screened to detect carriers of the new influenza virus which has created panic

The environmental movement has taken a new turn in the U.S. with the entry of some large conservation organisations into commercial forestry. The Nature Conservancy, based in Arlington, Virginia and

The Bulk Drug Manufacturers Association (BDMA) has taken the Union Government and the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) to court over what it claims is the duo's ad hoc and arbitory