The Karur-based private sector bank, Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB), which is eyeing the nice opportunity for financing effluent treatment plants for the dyeing industry in this textile town, is organising
Two Russian cosmonauts and a Frenchman landed safely in their space capsule in Kazakhastan on Thursday, nearly three-and-a-half-hour after undocking from the Mir space station, mission control
Residents across the Japan are winning access to waste disposal information, yet some deals seem to end up in the trash. Disputes over waste disposal sites are being dumped onto municipal governments
More than a year has passed since the Russian tanker Nakhodka broke apart in a storm in the Sea of Japan off Shimane Prefecture, spilling about 5,000 kiloliters of heavy oil. To all appearances,
A Philipine Quezon city councilor called on the police authorities to strictly enforce an ordinance which requires gasoline stations to build underground secondary tanks. Moises S. Samson, the
Philippines speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. announced last night the ratification of the bicameral conference committee report on the development, management and conservation of the fisheries and aquatic
New Zealand duck shooters and anglers are being targeted by environmentalists, who say heavy loads of lead are contaminating some New Zealand lake beds and wetlands. The Forest and Bird Protection
The Japan International Co-operation Agency (Jica) said yesterday it will conduct a survey starting in May on marine pollution in the Straits of Malacca where coral reefs and mangroves have been
It's been a year since the Delhi government promised 50 authorickshaws runing on environment-friendly propane on the Capital's roads. It's been just about two weeks since Delhi transport minister
Scientists have grown the first all-human replacement part--a 5-cm vein--and implanted it in dog. The breakthrough is set to transform heart surgery by giving doctors a new source of replacement
