Here's your weekly digest of the most weird, true and funny news from the across the world. She spent Rs 9.8 lakh to look like a Disney princess A Disney fan has splashed out more than......
India and the United States have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on counter-terrorism and five other pacts as they ventured to chart their ties as "one of the defining relations" in the 21st......
Among the recipients of the Padma Shri -- India's fourth-highest civilian honor -- this year is Dr Joseph Hulse, a bio-chemist whose area of expertise is the life sciences, particularly relating to......
For long, farmers in rich countries -- the United States, Europe and Japan -- have received hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies annually from their governments. They need these subsidies......
In late June the United States declared that talks with the European Union over trading rules for Genetically Modifiedfoods had broken down, and America would seek a formal World Trade Organisation......
'Our technology is going to help Indian agriculture the way the White Revolution helped milk production.' IMAGE: AgNext founder Taranjeet Singh Bhamra. Photograph: Kind courtesy Taranjeet Singh......
Traders say prices will remain elevated due to increased demand, lower availability Onion prices saw a remarkable jump, hitting an eight-month high on account of a sharp increase in demand by......
Since 2000, India has had three serious droughts. The World Bank has estimated that the 2012 drought reduced the country's gross domestic product by half a percentage point, even though it was not......
Mumbai-based pomegranate exporter has attracted early investors but increasing scale & securing large land leases are challenges.Forty-year-old Mahipal Singh and his fellow farmers in Narmada......
The influenza A (H1N1) virus is not transmitted to humans by eating pork -- that much is now known and said. But what are the origins of this virus, which is winging across our air-travel......