The absence of communication from the Centre on sanctions imposed by Japan, USA and other countries as well as its implicaitons on international financial institutions etc has left the state

Agitated over the "misbehavioyr" of the lawyers and the police in the kidney transplant case, the Delhi Nephrological Society, under the auspices of the Delhi Medical Association, has threatened to

It is slowly becoming evident that the government had done its homework well before going ahead with the five nuclear implosions. It had carefully assessed the implications of the test on the

The government will not encourage captive power projects as they were uneconomical and short sighted in nature, the Power Minister, Mr R Kumaramangalam

Andhra Pradesh may well be the worst hit state in the country with the USA deciding on imposing sanctions. The mammoth Rs 12,000 crore aid agreed to in principle by the World Bank is especially in

The spate of suicides by over 300 farmers in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the past three months was the tragic culimination of the process of commercialisation of

The US government has been charged by a Congressional investigative wing of laxity in screening foreign drug ingredients imported into the country from a variety of sources, including Indian and

A former chief minister and senior Congress leader, Mr Ram Lal Thakur, today said that the commisison agents at Subzi Mandi, Delhi, were charging the apple growers' of the state an unauthorised

Leading names in the drug industry like Zencca, Phytoparm and Procter and Gamble (P&G) have been accused of exploiting herbs long known in Asia--India and China in particular--before they were turned

As rescuers searched for more bodies in the wake of the huge mudslides in Italy that have killed at least 54 people, the nation began to count the cost of the corruption and mismanagement that