One in five poultry companies that abandoned the use of antibiotics to make chickens grow faster are now using them again. Producers and retailers have quietly reintroduced growth promoters despite
Beijing is to crack down on the eating of civet cats after research by a Hong Kong scientist showed it was likely the SARS virus that has killed almost 700 people worldwide jumped to humans from the
An acute form of asthma in their six-year-old son forced an Italian couple to set sail with him on a home-made boat in the hope that living permanently at sea will help to cure him. The boy will be
Top Norwegian officials arrived in Japan to promote their nation's seafood, but their long-term hopes to sell whale meat could be scuppered by worries that the delicacy is contaminated by toxic
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has approved the introduction of a new nationwide HIV/AIDS educatio, prevention and care programme, in the wake of new indications that the rate of infection is
The Hong Kong government said today the SARS virus has killed one more person in the territory and infected one other.The latest figures bring the local death toll from Severe Acute respiratory
Canadian health officials said that they had detected about 20 more possible cases of Sars in the Toronto area, in addition to the 26 suspected and eight probable cases reported. Two deaths have
As many as 40 people succumbed to sunstroke on Wednesday taking the total over the past week to 135, even as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu ordered release of Rs 10,000 to the
Even as an endangered species, with protections afforded only a handful of other creatures on Earth, the Florida manatee loses up to 10 percent of its number every year, many crushed or slashed by
Corruption is eatingout the benefits of the poor as panchayat secretaries and sarpanchs have been using machienry against guidelines in execution of works sanctioned to tackle drought. No action was
In view of the farming community's search for new employment opportunities due to severe dry spell leading to barren lands, the Andhra Pradesh state government has taken up a micro irrigation
Delhi will have 6,000-sq km IT park this year. This was announced by Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit at an economictimes.com seminar here today. Speaking at the seminar, the CM said Delhi was not
Two hundred songbirds are blocking the construction of a motorway linking east and west Germany following the latest courtroom ambush by Green activists. Bats, hamsters, frogs and various tupes of
The strongest earthquake to hit Japan in more than two years rumbled across the main island Monday, injuring 104 people and causing fires and landslides along its northeastern coast and rocking
Alarmed by the destruction caused to environment and ecology, the Himachal Pradesh Government is seriously considering to ban all kinds ofpolybags in the state, and a proposal to this effect has been
The national bird at Mayur park in Hooghly's Rajhat is battling to survive the heat this summer.Two peacocks died this afternoon at Mayur
Lawyers representing some 30,000 impoverished Ecuadoreans are expected to sue ChevronTexaco accusing the second-largest US oil company of contaminating the rain forest and sickening local
The discovery of tiger pugmarks in the far reaches of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in the Nagla area across the Vasai creek has generated tremendous excitement among the animal-lovers and
Apart from announcing a package of welfare measures to 1 crore families in the State, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today said that his government's stress would be more on welfare and
Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) Limited, which introduced Bt Cotton seeds in Indian market last year, is now planning to release about 7 lakh packets in the ensuing season this year, including more
