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The government India may abolish customs duty on wheat flour and float a new tender for grain imports in August, traders said on Thursday, but the moves may not dent local prices due to expensive glob

The agricultural ministry will examine Monday a proposal to create special poultry farming zones so that the industry as a whole does not suffer when the birds are hit by diseases in a small isolated

Seeking to tap the vast potential in the bio-technology sector, Union Government today decided to take over the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology in Kerala and accord it the status of an autonomou

Immigrants coming to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for employment purposes will have to furnish certificates which state that they are not infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or suffer

Forget bars and restaurants, even smoking at home in the presence of a domestic help might invite action from the government.

On the face of it, it sounds like an ingenious plan: introducing frogs to do away with the rising mosquito population in the Capital.

India has got its woman president in Pratibha Patil who won one of the bitterest political campaigns to the top post in the country's 60-year-old post independence history.

Union Petroleum minister Murli Deora today ruled out any immediate hike in prices of petroleum products, including LPG and kerosene.

The land belonging to Tata group firm Tata Tea in Munnar in excess of permissible limits will be recovered within two weeks, Kerala Chief Minister V.S.

Kerala Education Minister M A Baby said the government would take all possible measures to re-admit six HIV-positive children, who had been turned away from a school in Kottayam district.