A powerful typhoon hit Hong Kong and the southern China coast on Monday, killing at least 20 people on the mainland, crippling power lines and causing flooding and gale force winds.

Though Godzilla isn't listed as a threat, Tokyo has the dubious distinction of being the world's most vulnerable city when it comes to natural disasters, according to a report released Wednesday by

Farmers in the Philippines has vandalised a field trial of golden rice, a genetically modified rice fortified with vitamin A, under International Rice Research Institute.

The year's most powerful typhoon slammed into the Philippines on Monday, triggering landslides and floods, cutting power and communications and leaving 9 fishermen missing, weather and disaster off

Environment and agriculture activists, farmers Thursday at a human chain protested the government's move to introduce genetically modified (GMO) Bt-brinjal at farmers' level.

Giving a pat on the back to the government’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), a recent study by the Asian Development Bank has said it is a very effecti

India’s population will touch 1.4 billion in 2025

India will become the most populous country in the world by 2028, surpassing China, while Nigeria will have more people than the United States by 2050, a latest report has said.

New Delhi: The proposed food security law may attract penal action at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for a possible breach of the subsidy cap allowed under these rules, prompting the government to seek an amendment to the norms.

Although a proposal from the G-33, spearheaded by Indonesia, China, Pakistan, Philippines and India, had already been moved in the run-up to the ministerial meeting in Bali in December, the proposed food security legislation has increased the urgency.