While people worry about patenting of upmarket plant products like neem because of transnational interest, India's unique biodiversity of domesticated animals is disappearing because of lack of attention. Indira Khurana of the
In the first case of its kind, a US rancher has sued Oprah Winfrey, the popular talk show hostess, alleging that her broadcast of April 16, 1996 had cost him US $6.7 million in lost sales of
Researchers in Gujarat have harnessed the energy of bullocks to generate electricity for 24 villages in Vadodara district. Under this innovative method, four bullocks are yoked on to a shaft,
The mad cow controversy has raised its ugly head once again. An as yet unpublished study conducted by British government scientists says that hundreds of Britons are likely to die every year
IN WHAT is being described as the first comprehensive European Union (eu) attempt to prop a market hard hit by the beef crisis, farm ministers of these countries have arrived at a compromise deal.
In the ongoing battle over beef, UK suffered yet another defeat when the European Court of Justice rejected its demand for an immediate lifting of the ban on its beef exports. The court in Luxembourg
truce has been called by the uk and the European Union ( eu) in the three month-old battle over beef. The agreement was reached last month at the eu summit in Florence, Italy.
