The state government yesterday submitted a revised estimate of Rs 464 crore to an official Central team which has come to assess the drought situation. The team of Central Government officials

Accessing a life-sapping tumour lodged deep inside the brain through nasal route is being touted as a "new frontier" in neuro-surgery bristling with immense possibilities for the patients and doctors

HC : The Allahabd High Court has stayed implementation of the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) pending a thorough reassessment of the entire project by an expert group following indications of "improper

The USA, which lost a case to Indian and three other nations at the World Trade Organisation, still denies that its shrimp import norms are discriminatory. A WTO appeals body reversed a lower panel's

The DAV Research Society for Health have cautioned the citizens against synthetic and adulterated khoya which was being sold in the markets. The president of the society, Dr R P Parasher, in a letter

A new type of vaccine that is cheaper and easier to produce than traditional vaccines may some day be used to protect people from diseases such as malaria, researchers have said. The new type of

The move by the West Bengal Government to curb sound pollution, especially in Calcutta, has had its impact on the sale of crackers from Sivakasi this Deepavali, while exact figures are not

Winging their way over long distances feathered friends from Siberia, Iraq, Iran and central Europe have started arriving in the balabana bird sanctuary on the Chilka lake on Orissa

Possibility of acquiring land falling under green area as per the master Plan 2001, adjacent to the South-Central ridge, to ensure its continuity will be explored. This was decided in a meeting to

A liver transplant has been successfully perfomred at the Apollo Hospital in Chennai. The hospital claimed that this was the first "successful" effort to transplant a liver in the country.