The State government has ordered a high-level inquiry into the large-scale deaths of tea plantation workers in the three Upper Assam districts of Jorhat, Sibsagar and Golaghat where gastro-enteritis

The Digvijay Singh Government has given a green signal to the 'B Vijay Kumar Consortium' for diamond exploration work in the

The Goa Government is seriously planning to hand over transmission and distribution of power to one private firm in order to centralise it, , though power would be generated by different private

Hopes of a possible decontrol of the sugar industry receded on Thursday with state food ministers opposing any move to wind up the public distribution system (PDS) for sugar and favouring

The World Bank could resume lending to India this week despite sancitons imposed after the country joined the nuclear club, monetary sources have said. They said the bank's board was tentatively

The Union Food Minister, Mr Surjit Singh Barnala, yesterday called for improved buffalo breeds in the country and mooted the Punjab model for making the buffalo farmer, an entrepreneur. Inaugurating

The mayor of a small southern town in Brazil said on Wednesday he will distribute Viagra free of charge in a bid to raise the community's population and get more federal aid. Mayor Elcio Berti, mayor

Even as the state government is yet to make a categorical assertion on the acquisition of tribal land for the controversial Sahara India Housing Project at Ambavane Village in Mulshi taluka, 36

Scientists here have identified for the first time a strain of a popular south Indian cotton variety that can be multiplied through tissue

Independent power producers (IPPs) are in for more trouble and further delays, The latest notification of the ministry of power on tariff calculations has forced IPPs and state electricity boards to

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