Zakariyapura — India’s climate-smart model village for biogas production & utilisation

The village has created a sustainable biogas network that not only helps women financially but also reduces their burden of household work

Drug trials in India killed 2,031 persons

Only 22 compensated in four years, admits drugs controller during RTI hearing

Supreme Court lashes out at Centre and Madhya Pradesh for lax attitude towards unethical drug trials

Gives eight more weeks to file their responses

Committee recommends restarting clinical trials in Madhya Pradesh

Says is in interest of people

Annihilation of caste and copyright claims

Ambedkar’s works have been published widely and yet pose a copyright conundrum

Health ministry hiding facts in Indore clinical trial case?

Only one patients’ consent was not available, says health minister in Rajya Sabha

SC gives Centre six weeks to file response on illegal clinical trials

Around 2,000 people who underwent clinical trials in India have died since 2008

Food coupons for BPL families

Bring HIV/AIDS Bill in Parliament this winter session, demand activists

Bill has been shuttling between health and law ministries since 2006

Clinical trials: compensation may be given only if injury directly relates to trials

Health authority says final decision on the matter may take time

Don't sign free trade agreement with EU, yet: Parliament panel to government

EU-India FTA must pass Parliament scrutiny before it is signed, says panel chairperson

My experiment with honking-free driving

Car horn should be an emergency device, not a toy

Solar mission phase II: viability gap funding not the best way to subsidise solar photovoltaic plants, say analysts

It may lead to setting up of inefficient solar projects under National Solar Mission

Government for FDI in nuclear energy

Final decision to be taken by Cabinet soon

Real estate invades Dadri wetland

Bil Akbarpur is not included in the list of wetlands by district authorities

'Is Dabolim project in forest area?'

High court seeks status report from Goa's forest department in eight weeks

Government's expert panel recommends 'first come, first served' policy for registering new drugs

Activists accuse panel of pitching for pharma industry and ignoring patients' interest

Other side of the fence

Conservation hits close home for forest officer

Green tribunal orders closure of 34 illegal packaged drinking water units in Noida, Greater Noida

Ban on use of groundwater for construction in the two NCR cities to continue

Coffins for the EU Delegation in Delhi

Health activists protest against the EU-India investment treaty under negotiation now

Gamble for guar, soy

Despite demand and production, farmers lose to futures trading

Lok Sabha passes Surrogacy Bill amid disruptions

The Bill ensures effective regulation of surrogacy, prohibits commercial surrogacy, and allows altruistic surrogacy to needy Indian infertile …

Amul takes hygiene a step forward

At Anand, the dairy cooperative movement’s birthplace, no one will defecate in the open. RAHUL KUMAR, Amul Dairy’s managing director, …

Parliament committee indicts drugs regulatory authority

Drugs which are banned in developed countries are approved in India without clinical trials

NGT stays construction in college campus in Soor Sarovar bird sanctuary

Green tribunal says Sharda Group, which runs the Anand Engineering College, has violated conditions of environmental clearance