The return of the unicorns is an account of what it takes to save endangered large mammals.

Jammu and Kashmir High Court gets tough on imposition of ban on shahtoosh products

India s wealth of flora and fauna provide a rainbow of natural dyes

Research efforts on natural colours are not helping the traditional industry

Natural dye business survives on exporters and the local carpet industry

Natural dyes, now popular in the West, are yet to make it big in the Indian market, reports R V Singh
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After an 11-year break, Japan intends to import whale meat again. Although the plan has been flayed by environmentalists, Japan has said that it would also expand its research whaling programme.

UK-based animal welfare group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals has been campaigning against Indian leather, alleging ill-treatment of animals in the slaughter houses here. This has had a great impact on the Indian export with countries like UK and

A reliable and sensitive procedure is presented for the analysis of erythromycin (ERY) and oleandomycin (OLE) in food of animal origin, such as meat, liver, kidney, raw milk and egg. The method is based on a solid-phase extraction clean-up with a cation exchange cartridge, a 9-fluoromethylchloroformate (FMOC) precolumn derivatization and a separation by HPLC with fluorometric detection.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria in meat on the rise

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