The Andhra Pradesh state government has adopted a three-pronged strategy in irrigation sector aimed at increasing the irrigation potential, removing the regional imbalances and handing over
While Greenpeace activists continue to occupy a shipment of ancient Canadian rainforest timber and pulp in Greenock harbour, near Glasgow, as part of an international campaign to save the world's
In the battle over scarce organs for dying patients, the US government said that the nation's allocation system must send organs to the sickest donor. The Health and Human Services Department plans
On climate change policy, as on so much else, President Bill Clinton's rehetoric is beyond reproach. In Kyoto last Decemeber, his negotiators committed the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas
A Mexican court in the northern city of Hermosillo has ordered Mexicana de Cobre, a subsidiary of Grupo Mexico, the country's largest mining group, to return 1,500 hectares of expropriated communal
More environmentalists feel that a sanctuary or forest area should not be used for releasing domesticated animals. Reacting to the green signal by the Delhi Government for the bear sanctuary project
The Union Government is hosting the first ever assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) here from April 1 to 3.As many as 161 Governments will participate in the assembly which will review
The tobacco industry has warned the White House that it will oppose a national tobacco settlement measure, under negotiations with a key Senate Republican, to raise the price of cigarettes $1.10 per
The Assam Government will soon enact a bill to control the use of polythene and other non-biodegradable garbage in the State in order to preserve the environment. Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar
The new BJP-led Government at the Centre has been attacked by a prominent NGO activist Kailash Satyarthi. The incumbent had taken exception to the Government's stand on nuclear arms here early this
