Leading environmental organisaions have condemned the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) ruling aginst a US embargo on shrimp imports from India, Pakistan and two other countries (Malaysia and
The defence ministry, which is ascertaining details of Pakistan's testing of the 1,500-km range Ghauri surface-to-surface missile, is likely to study satellite pictures on the test-firing. It could
In megacities there will be mega problems. And they all seemed to be looking for solutions to these mega problems. Representatives of municipal corporations of a number of big cities converged in the
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr M Karunanidhi, yesterday, announced a further set of sales tax (ST) concessions and a substantial Rs 94-crore relief package for farmers , reeling under the impact
Children in Iraq are more susceptible to cancers today than they were before the Gulf War. About this there is no doubt. Since 1990 there has been a definite increase in the incidence of cancers such
A workshop on 'Environmental Reporting and Disclosure' has deplored the tendency of industrial units to hold back information on the results of the clean technologies employed. The workshop, which
The Punjab government has secured a soft loan of Rs 408 crore from Japan for increasing the forest cover in the state. The loan has been granted by the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund set up by
Fish-kill on a massive scale is going on in the river Cauvery, particularly near the boundary between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Besides using huge nets, the poachers are "dynamiting" the river for a
Following a long delay, a Russian booster rocket lifted off today, carrying seven communication satellites into space, officials said. The Proton-K rocket left the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the former
The power sector in Jammu and Kashmir is set for privatisation with the state government having signed four memoranda of understanding with foreign companies to set up power projects in the