The European Parliament will decide today whether to push for tougher European Union targets for reducing car emissions- a step which could increase costs to the oil and motor industries by billions
Europe faces "devastating" future and should overhaul its strategy for containing them, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned. The agency called for a cut in herd
The United States has rejected India's claim that it needed time until June 1999 to implement World Trade Organisation's (WTO) ruling to amend its intellecual property rights (IPR) laws. The dispute
The multinationals' policy to trying to patent life forms which belong to Third World Biodivesity came in for severe criticism at the International Conference on Medicinal Plants. India's Dr
Experts from Russia are in the city to finalise the contractual terms of the detailed project report (DPR) for the $3.1-billion Koodankulam 2000 MW nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu with the
China has set a target of meeting energy resource demands by the year 2010 to guarantee rapid economic and social development, according to a senior State Planning Commission official. China will
A sternuous ecological project : Each year, China creates 5.3 million hectares of forests, afforests another 3.7 million hectares of mountains where hunting and grazing are prohibited, and plants 2.4
Construction of the Zhengzhou Waste Water Treatment Plant, the biggest in the Huaihe River Valleys, has begun in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province. The 761 million yuan project,
