News Briefs

UPA's development report card

A look at the progress of the Congress-led alliance's flagship programmes

Science and Technology - Briefs

Cigarettes with additives pollute air more: study

Fifteen chemicals increased by 20 per cent or more in air with the cigarettes

YAWN!

The Indian Science Congress 2001 represented the state of science in India

Drought-tolerant maize launched in African countries

Flour fortification important for Indonesia, says UNICEF

MGNREGA funds scam in Bihar could have been prevented

Initiative to make wage payment to workers transparent was stalled by officialdom

In short

South Asia

Disease threatens wheat crops across the world

Locust outbreak in Afghanistan

Agriculture ministry bats for GM crops

Calls for a national policy on GM crops in its report to Parliament

Uzbek farmers face criminal charges for not growing cotton, wheat

US approves new drug that can cure even drug resistant TB

Experts, activists seek new regime for its rational use

Return of bird flu in India raises alarm

No confirmation yet on whether virus is a mutant one

Antibacterial resistance: Don't compromise

The only way to combat antibiotic resistance is to keep the environment clean

COVID-19: US FDA grants emergency authorisation for remdesivir

EUA doesn't equal final nod; China trial painted different picture

Anganwadis in Attappady fail to deliver

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General points to neglect by state

Science and Technology - Briefs

Budget through the years post liberalisation

Run up to Budget 2012-13

1.2 million children in Karnataka are malnourished, state tells high court

Civil rights groups blame packaged food supplied to anganwadis 

EC stops import of US long-grain rice

Cooling begins in doomsday vault