The Gangatiri breed, native to eastern Uttar Pradesh and western Bihar, is celebrated for its disease resistance and cost-effectiveness. It...

People with HIV can now breastfeed their babies if they are on effective medications, according to a new report from the American Academy o...

"Under a project by National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal to work on cloning of indigenous cow breeds such as Gir and Sahiwal, India's ...

Set 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...

"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...

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...

Probiotics gain demand in the new millennium but there is still a lot of grey area around the science of ingesting good bacteria.

FSSAI has been organising awareness camps and making policy change to promote food fortification and address the challenge of micronutrient...

A regular volunteer at a children's home ThayiMane, it was when Dixit went to the girls' toilet that she realised the lack of hygiene.

If 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...

The bank, named 'Amudham Thaippal Maiyam' (ATM), which will also offer breastfeeding counselling to mothers, was inaugurated last Wednesday.

A breast milk bank is a service much like the blood bank. It collects, screens, processes and provides human milk donated by nursing mother...

"The program will provide a transparent electronic platform to connect people who want to participate as donors in the initiative," Nandaku...

The country's premier dairy institute is looking at cloning as a strategy to boost population of high-yielding, elite variety of buffaloes.

The SSB will send 12 vehicle loads of the collected relief material to Nepal for the affected people of the earthquake.

It is(camel milk) rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamin B and is said to be almost as nutritious as human breast milk.

Blame it on growing levels of stress, obesity or pollutants in the air, counts of the microscopic sperm are falling and causing mega concer...