The earth moved in Asia today as powerful aftershocks rocked the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, and a series of earthquakes jolted China, Myanmar and Japan. Experts said last Sunday's

The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) here has come up with a National Forestry Research Plan (NFRP) which aims at revamping its institutes, effect a new research policy and

Even afater six years, the question whether the epidemic that hit Surat and other places was plague remains

Teh World Bank is expected to consider and approve a $516 million loan tomorrow to finance a national highway project in India. On Tuesday, the Bank approved a $62 million loan for the telecom

The Union Home Minister, Mr. L.K. Advani, inaugurated the first countrywide newborn to adult mobile ICU van in New Delhi. Designed as an easily accessible and mass-based system, it is not just an

A cancer patient has been successfully treated by boosting her immune system with a vaccine made from her own tumour. Doctors revealed on Saturday that Ms. Cathryn Nosrati, from Verwood, southern

The largest-ever global conference on trade collapsed under the weight of its agenda when representatives from 135 member-countries of the World Trade Organisation realised they could not resolve

Relief opreations in the cyclone-affected districts of Orissa has been seriously affected and almost everybody has forgotten about the plight of the lakhs of affected people in the wake of the

The Delhi Government will include hepatitis-B in its Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) from next year and necessary budgetory provision for that would be made in the next budget, the Delhi

Nearly two years after the Supreme Court expressed concern over the chances of a chemical mishap in the Capital, an emergency management plan for off-site chemical disasters is still languishing with