No medicines in Manipur hospitals
The cash strapped Manipur Government has stopped supplying food, medicines and non-medicinal items to indoor patients of the J.N. Hospital, Imphal, which is the biggest government hospital in the
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Dabur launches new formula for cancer, leprosy treatment
The Rs 162.9 crore Pharmaceuticals division of Dabur India Limited has launched Thalidomide, a new drug formulation for treating Multiple Myeloma, a type of blood cancer, and Erythma Nodosum
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Pre-marriage AIDS test mandatory in this villager
The gramsabha of Hivare Bazar village in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district on Sunday decided to make pre-marriage HIV test compulsory. "We do not want our future generations to be affected with AIDS
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BJP to relaunch 'Chalo Gaon Ki Ore' campaign
The Bhartiya Janata Party had been compelled to launch its 'Chalo Gaon Ki Ore' campaign for the fourth time after registering repeated failure of its earlier campaign in Madhya
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Greens may derail Sunderbans project
Tourism will easily qualify as one of the least developed industries in West Bengal. but it looks as if it's set to change, thanks to a new tourism focus on one of the rarest eco-systems in the world
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State's ecosystem favours monkeys: report
Goa's wildlife census report reveals that the State's ecosystem has become a shelter for monkeys. The just concluded wildlife census indicates an increase in the number of monkeys in comparison to
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Sweets do not cause obesity
Moderate consumption of sweets and chewing gum is not a major cause of obesity or carries, according to the Spanish Association of Dietitians and Nutritionists. Sugary foods should make up 10 per
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E-goveranace gets boost in Rajasthan
As part of its drive to create an information technology driven and knowledge based society, the Rajasthan government has taken several measures for human resource development with substantial inputs
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Indian brain behind world's first 'automated' news site
The brain behind the world's first news service, totally compiled by computer, without human intervention, belongs to an Indian software engineer, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Science
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Anomaly in BPL census
The parameters laid down by the National Sample Survey Organisation and the Planning Commission for identification of the below poverty line(BPL) families have led to an anomaly in Rajasthan where
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10th plan a blow to PM's vision
The 10th plan documentation, appears to have demolished Prime Minster Atal Behari Vajpayee's castles in the air - the promise of creating five crore jobs by 2007. In fact, on the assumption that a
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Rs 200-cr aid for SHGs in East Godavari district
East Godavari district, of Andhra Pradesh with a record number of 46.574 self-help groups of women (SHGs), is in the forefront not only in the state, but the country, and the state government has
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3,000 bighas of Kokrajhar land under West Bengal's encroachment
In addition to the ongoing inter-state border disputes of Assam with Nagaland and Meghalaya, another incident of illegal encroachment in Kokrajhar district has come into light. Almost 3,000 bighas of
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Brazil non-GM soy seen threatening rain forests
Green groups have praised Brazil's rejection of gene-modified (GM) soybean production but fear the policy will take a heavy toll on the Amazon rain forests. "Soya farming really is emerging as the
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Small farmers launch rival to NFU
The once united farming industry , UK, was thrown into further turmoil with the launch of a campaigning group deeply critical of the National Farmers' Union and dedicated to fighting the rapid
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Land use policies lack integrated approach
Wonder why existing land use policies have not been delivering the desired results? A recent government report suggests that this is due to the lack of cohesive approach to various components of such
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Direct credit lending Nabard lauds Rajasthan
Rajasthan has achieved the distinction of attaining higher direct credit lending to the agriculture sector out the total priority sector lending from commercial banks at 21.68 per cent. This is
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Icrisat develops world's first transgenic groundnut variety
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) has developed the world's first transgenic groundnut variety. The new variety is expected to have resistance towards
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Punjab mulls a shift from wheat & paddy
The much-awaited report of the Sardara Singh Johl Committee has strongly recommended centrally-assisted crop adjustment programme to break Punjab's age-old wheat-paddy cropping cycle and eventually
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Package to save Kerala plantation
Upasi has called upon the unions, Kerala Government and the employers to put their heads together and work out a "survival package" to save the plantation industry in the state. Addressing a press