The 99th Inter parliamentary Union conference (IPU), which concluded recently at Windhoek in Namibia, South Africa, expressed great concern over the spread of HIV/AIDS infection in the world, and its

The Union Governments's Department of Health is now actively involved in drawing up minimum values for all formulations which go by the name of herbal medicines or

A comprehensive health care programme for school-going children, School Health Annual Report Programme (SHARP), is being launched in the Capital in July, covering private and public institutions.The

The national leprosy elimination campaign has been intensified, with the launch today of an intensive survey in eight States and three Union Territories to search out hidden cases of the deaded

As the temperature begins to soar, and summer promise to be hot and arid, the Capital inevitably witnesses an unprecedented demand for water. The Delhi Development Authority puts current demands for

In a significant judgement the Gujarat High Court has held that the total ban imposed by the State Government on slaughter of cattle by passing Act of 1994 (which amended Bombay Animal Preservation

The National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) will launch an agitation in the coastal States to press for the withdrawal of the Aquaculture Authority Bill and other notifications that seek to dilute the

Astronauts aboard the US space shuttle Columbia were due to remove embryo from nine pregnant mice on Sunday as they orbited the earth on a mission to probe the brain and nervous

The 2.4-MW Meenvalolom small hydro power (SHP) project which would probably be the first in the country to be taken up by a district panchayat would make a headway with the formal registration of

Another valuable medicine - known to Ayurveda - is now being patented by a US pharmaceutical firm for treatment of jaundice - one of the most energy depleting and degenerating disease of the liver.