Twenty per cent of India’s 100 million elderly population are suffering from Alzheimer’ disease.

India’s dream of providing clean gas-based power stations is turning sour.

In a determined bid to reduce the carbon footprint in the country, both the PMO and the Planning Commission are pushing for the development of an effective inland water transport system and a more eff

Farmers in Haryana have stepped up their campaign against the setting up of the Gorakhpur Nuclear Power Plant in the Fatehabad district of the state.

The National Innovation Council (NIC), headed by Sam Pitroda — adviser to the Prime Minister on public information, infrastructure & innovations — has taken up eight pilot projects in diverse fields such as ayurveda, bamboo, brassware and life sciences in order to improve their profitability.

Despite having unleashed more than 780 Bt cotton hybrids in India during the last decade, yields have turned stagnant and farmer suicides in the cotton belt are multiplying.

The government expressed willingness to halt all power projects coming up in the Ganga’s Alaknanda and Bhagirathi river basi-ns as part of its concessions to 80-year-old Prof. G.D. Agarwal (Swami Gyansw-aroop Anand) to persuade him to break his prolonged fast at the AIIMS here on Friday.

Most of hydroelectric power projects in the Ganga’s Alaknanda and Bhagirathi river basins have come up in the teeth of public opposition with even water experts from IIT Roorkee having warned that even the minimum water flow in the Ganges had been adversely affected with their construction.

The Stockholm Internati-onal Water Institute (SIWI) has warned against the increasing leasing and buying of millions of hectares of farmlands in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America for food and f

Despite 10 transfers in five years and two presidential orders issued in his favour, the case of whistleblower Indian Forest officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi is getting more and more curious.