India will spend between $3.3 billion and $5.3 billion by 2025 as treatment costs for diabetes, 40% more than what it does at present. WHO has estimated that in the next 10 years, India will lose
China accounts for about half of the global annual death toll from stomach cancer due to the Chinese taste for pickled and smoked food and unabashed enthusiasm for smoking, the official Xinhua news
A giant black hole displaying horrifying table manners has been caught in the act of guzzling a star in a galaxy 4 billion light-years away, scientists using an orbiting Nasa telescope said. For the
West Bengal governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi went to Mamata Banerjee's protest fast venue in Kolkata on Wednesday to inquire about her health before leaving for Delhi. He requested the Trinamul Congress
Himachal Pradesh will set up the second drop-in-centre for AIDS patients at Barmana within a month. With one drop-in-centre already functioning at Poanta Sahib in Sirmour district, the National Aids
The Haryana Government has forwarded a mega Land Reclamation and Water Management Project of Rs 935 crore to the Central Government for the reclamation of about 45,750 hectares in 1,000 villages and
Mr Suresh Sharma, Managing Director, Nandni Biotechnology Centre, Maur Mandi, said almost every village of the state, especially villages of Bathinda, Mansa, Sangrur and Muktsar districts had 15 to
The government plans to launch the second phase of ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme within next two months, Minister for Rural Development Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said. "The first
Even as the Tatas face problems in acquisition of land for a car manufacturing plant at Singur in West Bengal, the Orissa government has asked the group to consider setting up an automobile plant in
Tata Motors' factory at Singur in West Bengal spread over 997 acres will conform to international standards. Responding to queries on the large requirement of land for its "crown jewel', the one lakh
NOT limiting their opposition on the Singur issue to West Bengal, protesters have shifted to the Capital. Tomorrow, a sit-in dharna will be held outside the CPI(M) headquarters against the police
GUIDELINES finalised by the Indian Council of Medical Research-Department of Biotechnology (ICMR-DBT) on stem cell research and therapy in the country, after almost two years of nationwide
Gordon Brown, the UK finance minister, raised taxes by $3.9bn a year in his annual pre-Budget report to shore up public finances, which were revealed to be in a much worse state than anyone expected.
National bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has decided to take up Wadi project in the north eastern states of India. Wadi is a successful programme of NABARD implemented successfully
Fearing serious environmental degradation, the Himachal Pradesh High Court today imposed a ban on the sanctioning and execution of new construction projects, mainly involving commercial and private
The cabinet approved the biggest compensation package in the state worth Rs 1,250 crores for the outer Ring Road (ORR) project. The state has decided to pay double the amount fixed by the
While parents from poor families leave their children at the care of government-run creches, children here have rodents and snakes for company. Many anganwadis
With a successful drive against encroachments in Porur lake, government officials have claimed a rare success of demolising illegal structures from one of the largest water bodies near Chennai. And
