Sunflower , considered the best diversified fancy kharif crop, may not remain the ideal choice for farmers due to an attack by pests, lesser area under cultivation and the prevailing high temperature

The four subsidiaries of the General Insurance Corporation-- New Delhi Assurance, United India, Oriental Insurance and National Insurance--have received Rs 537 crore worth of claims for losses

A study conducted by the Tata Energy Research insitute (TERI) has called upon dairy, food processing, textiles, hotel, edible oil , chemicals, marine chemicals and bulk drug industries alongwith

Defector scientists : Pakistan military commanders have discussed pre-emptive nuclear strikes against India and have drawn up a list of cities and military installations to be targeted, according

Experts at the Directorate of Wheat Research at Karnal in Haryana have found that wheat productivity could be increased through frontline demonstration in the form of applied research. Frontline

Traditonal paddy cultivators are now moving over to greener pastures like cash crops because of high cost of labour that is eating into their profits.

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will inaugurate the 55th All India Ayurvedic Congress at New Delhi on Wednesday and is expected to outline the government's policy on the India systems of

Elementary schools across Taiwan started summer vacation a week early, but their students have no place to go combating a virus that already has killed 52 children, summer camps won't open this year,

The Indian energy sector will be hit hard by the sanctions imposed on the country after the nuclear tests as the international funding agencies would stop aid with other financial agencies following

The Mymensingh Gas Turbine Power Plant having a capacity of generating 60 MW electricity is likely to be commissioned by December next, four months ahead of the schedule