radioactive wastes: A Pakistani senator recently accused the country's nuclear authorities of dumping radioactive waste near a village in the Punjab province causing cancer, miscarriages, and

Green light for Indo ASEAN free trade agreement

farm sops Special Safeguard Mechanism: Gives flexibility to some countries, including India, to impose additional customs duties on imported agricultural products to protect domestic market Special

Russia recently imposed a ban on salmon imports from Norway from January 1, 2006. Moscow cited dangerously high levels of lead and cadmium in the fish and inadequate Norwegian monitoring system, as

The seeds of a plant called jatropha yield oil that, after processing, makes biodiesel. It can reduce India s burgeoning oil import bill. And there s lots of money to be made. But who will earn? What land will be used for this? down t

India can't care about hazardous imports; the world must

A drawn out court case raises questions about India s animal quarantine managers

The ongoing drought in Australia has widened the trade deficit of the country. Rural exports have been hit as the rising Australian dollar has made imports cheaper. Analysts do not see a change in

The Sensex stock index has risen by 75 per cent since April this year. The rupee is at a three year high. Global investment analysts Goldman Sachs predict that India is the fastest growing of the

How negotiations on issues moved, or didn’t

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