Kerala plans party meet: The Kerala Irrigation Minister, Mr. V.P. Ramakrishna Pillai, told the Assembly today that there was no question of conceding Tamil Nadu's demand for increasing the water
A three-year project designed to increase energy efficiency in India and China by adopting copper-intensive technologies is to be implemented shortly. The $2.5 million China/India Market development
China's largest tropical rain forest in the Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province, will get further protection when the reserve is enlarged from 247,000 ha to 533,000 ha. Xishuangbanna has
China's family planning programme is expected to successfully stabilize China's population growth by the middle of next century when they are expected to be 1.6 billion people, officials predicted.
Natural resource managment has turned out to be a problem in Nepal, not because it doesn't have the means but because it lacks enough foresight and wisdom to ensure equity of distribution and proper
The figure of 140 million most recently given as Pakistan's population is only an estimate. Exactly where all these people live is also mostly guesswork. Karachi's population, for instance, is
Almost four centuries after the Portuguese popularised tobacco here, this former colony is leading India's battle against the noxious weed.Leading the charge is Goan surgeon, Dr Sharad Vaidya, chief
Dense smog from forest and bush fires has forced Brunei to order government offices and schools to open late and prompted a travel warning from the United States, authorities said on Tuesday. The
The Agricultural Products and Processed Food Export Development Authority and the ministry of industry will shortly contest the patent granted to United States-based Rice Tech for its new basmati
In a major contribution towards preventing climate change, scientists here have developed a technology to convert carbon dioxide, a green house gas, into a chemical called "di-methyl ether" which is
