The Goa power department has urged the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court to withdraw its overone year-old ban on new industrial connections as, among other things, the five-year income-tax holiday

Belgium confirmed yesterday that it would withdraw and destroy pork products with more than 20 per cent fat content held in slaughterhouses and storage in Belgium and overseas. The measure , which

Study : Most heartburn sufferers prefer to pop-over the country pills rather than figure out why they get that familiar burning sensation and make the lifestyle changes needed to prevent it,

Bad breath in the local trains? Nothing new, the upstarts would mutter.Hold it just there, This bad breath is thanks to the railway ministry stubbing out cigarettes in railway stations (effective

Last weekend's destruction of one of Britain's largest trial crops of oilseed rape, genetically modified to resist weedkiller, was the latest in an escalating campaign to stop the new technology.

After 11 Cabinet meetings and several high-level departmental symposiums, the Uttar pradesh government has finally come out with its first agriculture policy, which is aimed at popularising

Go ahead, have a banana and immunise yourself against cholera. And a peanut could give you tolerance against rabies. Clearly, biotechnology does not end with the Terminator Gene. Scientists--

Even 'healthy' smokers have subtle damage to their blood vessels , an early sign of heart disease, researchers said on last Monday. Their findings could help explain why smokers often canot exercise

Immunex Corp recently said its cancer drug Leukine helps AIDs patients stay on their drug cocktails longer without developing resistance to the drugs-- so long as they were started early.

Multinational conglomerate Cargill is making a comprehensive foray into the domestic foodgrain sector with plans to procure grain directly form farmers, sell wheat in the country, produce flour in