A major hurdle in the way of Goa's power privatisation process has been removed last week with the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court dismissing a writ petition which challenged the power purchase
Over 100 containers carrying hazardous waste were found at the Inland Container Depot at Tughlakabad by a committee appointed by the Supreme Court, recently. The Committee is headed by the eminent
Rafiq Mughal might have felt a sense of injustice last week after the publication of research which linked the symptoms of repetitive strain injury to physical damage to nerves in the arm and hand.
Some had thought that Peru might escape lightly this year from the unpredictable El Nino warm current, which periodically affects the west coast of South America. But in the past month severe
Trials at the University College of London using photodynamic therapy (PDT) with a new drug called Foscan have produced excellent results in treatment of oral
The European Commission yesterday called for disused offshore oil and gas platforms to be taken to land for disposal and recycling. But it said exceptions could be made for large concrete
European Union countries will be able to choose how to allocate billions of Ecus of Brussels aid to farmers for the first time under controversial plans for reforming the Common Agricultural
Poachers have killed 20 elephants in Kenya during the past four weeks with ranges fearing a renewed increase in illegal ivory trade, the Kenyan Nation newspaper reported today.
The National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) has chalked out a programme of interim measures to arrest the continuing trend of starvation deaths in the "KBK districts." In a joint effort that would