Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has won the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize. She is the first recipient of the award, that was handed over at Odense - the home town of Anderson.

Coal India's intial public offer (IPO) which opened recently for public subscription is expected to fetch over Rs.15,000 crore, making it by far the largest public offer ever made in India.


Our right to know includes the right to know what we eat. At a time when the European Union and countries such as Australia, Japan, and China have mandatory labelling requirements of GM foods, which require food processors, retailers and sometimes producers to display whether their products contain genetically engineered material, it is strange that India has not enforced a strict labelling regime. This despite the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issuing rules in 2006 to include compulsory GM labelling in the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules of 1995. Since we live in a transgenic age.