The Centre has given environment clearance for the expansion of runway at the Jammu Airport which will entail an investment of Rs 92 crore, a senior government official said Monday. Jammu airport, which
The Doha negotiations are at an impasse partially due to a disagreement between the United States and other WTO members on how to effectigely extend the compulsory-licensing provison of the TRIPS
Tuberculosis vaccine administered to babies may make them resistant to developing asthma later in life, Australian researchers
The ICICI Group is looking an introducing weather insurance through its non-life arm ICICI Lombard General Insurance as a part of its focus on agriculture.Against the present state-subsidised crop
Cipla, the country's second largest drug-meker by marketshare, has challenged a patent of one of Europe's largest pharma companies, GlaxoSmithKline, Plc, on a blockbuster asthma product in the UK .
The Tobacco Control Bill has received the assent of the Rajya Sabha. Along with regulation of trade and production, the Bill seeks to prohibit both direct and indirect advertising of cigarettes and
Coal handling emerging a significant hazard for major Indian ports. Despite being considered the root cause for huge pollution in ports and adjoining areas. According to a recent report published by
Breast-fed infants need a Vitamin D supplement to ward off rickets because exposure to the sun is no longer a safe way to provide the needed nutrient, a doctors group said. Rickets is rarely fatal
The agribusiness must make a greater effort to convince consumers that genetically modified (GM) soy presents no health or environmental risk. Brazilian and European food experts said. But a US
Here are weapons for another kind of mass destruction. Five primary farm commodities are being dumped onto the global markets by the United States in violation of the WTO agriculture rules. The US is
Exasperated by the delay in setting up of Urban Sanitation Mission to clean up major cities, the Supreme Court asked the Centre to give its response in 10 days in this regard and about the progress
