Inspection body orders closure of 28 marine units
The Export Inspection Council (EIC) has ordered closure of 28 marine processing units following their failure in improving the infrastructure facilities to the standard laid by the
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Death toll in Taiwan earthquake nears 2,000
Rescue workers and soldiers laboured across Taiwan yesterday to dig survivors form the wreckage of their homes as the death toll from the worst earthquake to hit the island in decades climbed towards
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Notice to govt on TG halli reservoir contamination
The Karnataka High Court today ordered issue of notices to the Union and State Governments on a public interest writ petition seeking direction to the authorities to stop flow of industrial effluents
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1,000 Delhi industries get SC notices
The Supreme Court has issued notices to over 1,000 hazardous industries in Delhi, asking them to show-cause why contempt proceedings shouldn't be initiated against them for not surrendering their
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Seagate launches tech to save corporate data
After the successful testing and approval by leading OEM's including Acer, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard for its new 3D defense system, Seagate Technology, leading manufacturer of disc drives, magnetic
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Radiation technology best to curb food losses
Radiation technology has the potentil to solve the country's food security problms, senior scientists have asserted. According to them the largescale wastage of agricultural and foods products could
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IPD stress on decentralised approach to population
With its unique focus on districts, the Integrated Population and Development (IPD) project launched by the United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA) as its fifth country programme in Rajasthan has laid
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Closure notices served on six units
The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board(APPCB) has served closure notices on six industries, including three units of the Nizam Sugars at Mumbojipally in Medak, Bodfhan in Nizamabad and Mutyampet
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Trade negotiators urged to focus on poor
The World Bank yesterday backed calls for forthcoming global trade negotiations to focus on the needs of developing countries and warned that failure to do so could set back development efforts and
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Gastro toll 64 in Far West
Sixty-four persons have died of gastroenteritis in the past two months in Achham, Bajura and Dadeldhura in Nepal according to Regional Police office at
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Indian genetically prone to diabetes
Novo NordisK: For, Novo Nordisk, a health-care company that focuses on diabetes, explains, Indians are gentically more prone to diabetes. According to the company, India has the dubious distinction
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Ovarian implant called success
An experimental ovarian tissue transplant has worked and allowed a prematurely menopausal woman to ovulate and have a normal menstrual period, a doctor said Thursday. International experts
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Typhoon No. 18 bears down on Kyushu
A large and strong typhoon was heading north by northeast Thursday in waters south of Kyushu and may approach the northern part of the island of Japan by morning, according to the Meteorological
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Cancer gene shown to attack organs
A gene mutation already linked to cancer has been shown, in addition, to cause the immune system to attack the kidneys and other organs in a way that resembles the effects of lupus. In laboratory
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Activists lost in woods over native logging
The Westbank Tribal Nation has taken to the woods of British Columbia to log without permission from the provincial Government. The Ministry of Forests has even issued a stop-work order but the
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Coming appliance-recycling law expected to generate new business opportunities
The Mitsubishi facility in Chiba Prefecture in Japan has become the final designation for hundreds of thousands of refrigerators and air conditioners being dismantled and crushed into scraps of metal
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Mother ship releases, recaptures 'baby' satellite
The National Space Development Agency (NASDA) of Japan succeeded in releasing a small satellite from its mother ship and recapturing it on Sep. 1. The agency conducted the test using two spacecraft
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US slaps $20-b lawsuit against tobacco giants
The US Justice Department yesterday filed a massive lawsuit that accuses the tobacco industry of fraud and deceit since the 1950s, and seeks to recover much of the $20-billion spent by the federal
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Trade dominates food conference
Last week's conference in Maastricht on the "multifunctional " character of agriculture and land, Cultivating our Futures, was dominated by trade issues. Joint organisers, the UN Food and Agriculture
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Govt, gods desert Delhi farmers
Inder Raj Singh, a farmer in Rewala village, Outer Delhi, has little else to do except look heavenwards. The 78-year-old man and his friends merely sit at the village "chaupal" all day, waiting for