For the first time in India, a pathogen believed to be rare, and so far reported only from the human body in gastroenteritis cases, has been isolated from water by a Delhi University lecturer.
The man-environment conflict has landed the Rs 50-crore salt manufacturing industry and as many as 3.5 lakh family members of salt-pan workers (agarias) into troubled waters. The agarias working in
Realising the immense value of its genetic wealth, India, which is one of the 12 mega biodiversity centres in the world, has launched a major project to hunt for economically useful genes and
Across the U.S. health maintenance organizations are starting to abandon their poorest patients. Having embraced Medicaid patients in the early 1990s after long shunning them, some major HMOs are
Though killing or trapping of the world famous sangai brow-antlered deer is banned inside the Keibul Lamjao National Park, the only floating wildlife sanctuary in the world, illegal hunting of the
A Rs. 455.30 crores agricultural development project has been forwarded to the Centre for approval for getting World Bank assistance, the Agriculture Minister, Mr. Veerapandi Arumugam, told the
The Uttar Pradesh Government's pried watershed development scheme, yet restricted to pockets in the sub-Himalayan and Shivalik ranges, continues to have a bleak furure even as the second phase of
East China's Shangdong and Jiangsu provinces have begun efforts to prohibit the overuse of subterranean water when groundwater abuse is prevalent nationwide. China has used more than 90 billion cubic
While most Chinese still take the traditional view that the remains of deceased persons should not be dissected, some 600 residents in Nanjing have chosen to donate their organs for medical use after
China has started work on four large nuclear power stations, which are expected to increase the proportion of power coming from nuclear power and to reduce
