Elite bull at Hapur farm is a headturner with 50k doses of semen and countingThe Gangatiri breed, native to eastern Uttar Pradesh and western Bihar, is celebrated for its disease resistance and cost-effectiveness. It...
US pediatrics group reverses decades-old advice against HIV-positive mothers breastfeedingPeople with HIV can now breastfeed their babies if they are on effective medications, according to a new report from the American Academy o...
Haryana: India's first cloned desi Gir female calf, Ganga produced at NDRI"Under a project by National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal to work on cloning of indigenous cow breeds such as Gir and Sahiwal, India's ...
Kerala's first Human Milk Bank to be opened on February 5Set up with the support of the Rotary Club of Cochin Global, the milk bank is to ensure breast milk for newborn babies, who are not being b...
Prayers held in Kamala Harris' ancestral village; her favourites - idli and sambar distributed to devotees"The pooja began at 8am and went on for about 4 hours," he said. "It is a matter of great pride for us that one of our own has made it so b...
Inside India's cutting-edge cow 'factory'High-yield cows are being produced in 'cow factories' with the aim to conserve indigenous varieties via surrogacy and IVF. The aim is to ph...
Germ theory: How probiotic products are flying off the shelvesProbiotics gain demand in the new millennium but there is still a lot of grey area around the science of ingesting good bacteria.
SJM opposes mandatorily fortified foodFSSAI has been organising awareness camps and making policy change to promote food fortification and address the challenge of micronutrient...
This teen raised funds to provide sanitary napkins for poorA regular volunteer at a children's home ThayiMane, it was when Dixit went to the girls' toilet that she realised the lack of hygiene.
View: When parties take money in cash from 'unidentified' donors, they work for tax evadersIf those who are supposed to make laws against corruption are themselves the products of a corrupt system, how can the rest of society be c...
This 'ATM' in Puducherry offers mother's milkThe bank, named 'Amudham Thaippal Maiyam' (ATM), which will also offer breastfeeding counselling to mothers, was inaugurated last Wednesday.
India needs breast milk donors to save lives of lakhs of preterm babiesA breast milk bank is a service much like the blood bank. It collects, screens, processes and provides human milk donated by nursing mother...
NDDB invites corporates to fund milk programme for school children"The program will provide a transparent electronic platform to connect people who want to participate as donors in the initiative," Nandaku...
Meet Swarupa, the cloned calf that's raised milk hopesThe country's premier dairy institute is looking at cloning as a strategy to boost population of high-yielding, elite variety of buffaloes.
Nepal earthquake: FICCI Ladies organisation to send relief materials to NepalThe SSB will send 12 vehicle loads of the collected relief material to Nepal for the affected people of the earthquake.
Flavoured camel milk to hit retail stores soon; expert group working on setting guidelinesIt is(camel milk) rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamin B and is said to be almost as nutritious as human breast milk.
- No fertile men in 50 years as sperm counts slide?
Blame it on growing levels of stress, obesity or pollutants in the air, counts of the microscopic sperm are falling and causing mega concer...