A team from the European Union will shortly visit India to check on the country's marine product exporters following charges of violation of a ban on seafood trade with its member nations.

A rare viral disease-- enterovirus-- has claimed the lives of 41 children in Warangla district of Andhra Pradesh in the past one month, the Health Minister, Mr N Janardhana Reddy, said today.

At least 23 people were killed and half a million marooned as the flood dituation in Bangladesh deteriorated today gripping 21 of the country's 64 districts, reports said.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture has wanred that the declining Plan allocation will force the government to wind up the Food Processing Ministry. The committee which tabled its

An "East India Companu Plant", but of a different kind, is spreading its roots in Rajasthan's reserve forests disrupting the food chain and particularly , tiger habitats and supressing the local

The Indian equivalent of Viagra, the high-potency drug, is all set to be produced in the country, albeit only for export purposes. The Chennai-vased Orchid Chemicals, which got the go-ahead for the

During the monsoon, limestone mining in Sirmaur's huge limestone belt is not at its highest. Instead, it is the illegal mining which has picked up considerably. With many roads in the fog-enveloped

The ongoing World Bank-aided 800 crore Madhya Pradesh Forestry Project has been wreaking havoc on the lives of lakhs of tribals living in forest areas in the state, according in a Betul-based

Sixty-four per cent of Delhi schoolchildren have high level of lead in their blood stream, above the safe permissible limits. This was stated by pediatrician, Dr Veena Kalra of the All India

The Comptroller and Auditor General has castigated the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board for having given a number of "undue advantages" to GVK Industries, the private promoter of the 216