A new method of cultivation, called direct seeded rice (DSR), reduces the overall cost of cultivation by using 12-35% less irrigation water...

India is gung-ho about becoming a global hub for millets and, in the process, solving global hunger and nutritional issues. But what we cul...

The need to feed an expanding population while cutting agriculture’s high greenhouse gas emissions means farming must become more efficient.

Food bought from overseas soaks up dollars, which no developing economy wants to part with right now. But that isn’t all. In the current ge...

Amazon said it was now looking to onboard more physical stores on its India platform to increase the number of goods that can be delivered ...

Faced with forces that are upending traditional business models, shippers around the world are pleading with regulators to rein in ocean-fr...

Karam has brought four people to Geneva from Timeless Media, a digital media company he founded in New York, and a similar number of Sricha...

The colourful Toyota Yaris subcompact that Akio Toyoda steered around the Okayama International Circuit in western Japan was powered by a c...

The app along with the IOT hardware has been tested for the past 3 months with 500 farmers and 2 tea estates.

Called "Transform to Net Zero", the group plans to recruit other members and will work with the Environmental Defense Fund and focus on del...

The tech giants like Apple, Google, Facebook, Intel and Microsoft are among the hundreds of businesses that declared their intention to con...

PMO has weighed in on the standoff between the MHA and MIB overdenial of security clearance to 33 channels of the Sun Group.

PMO has weighed in on the standoff between MHA and the MIB, and indications are that it has found more merit in the MHA argument.

Sources said MHA bureaucrats had disagreed with the A-G’s view at a meeting on Thursday where Rohatgi said the reason cited by MHA to deny ...

India has asked the international community to step up efforts to expose links between terrorists and their support networks and destroy th...

The 192-nation UNCTAD holds full meetings every four years. The presidents of Brazil, Senegal and South Africa are expected to attend.

Software tycoon Bill Gates gave his backing to a new initiative unveiled by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to tackle killer diseases i...