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The UNDP has offered aid worth $13.75 million towards food security and environment support to India. The two new grant agreements were signed by Dr Brenda Hael McSweeny, the new UNDP representative

The All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA) has decided to approach the Government to lobby with the United States authorities for cancelling the patent on

The Petrol Consumption Research Action (PCRA) has funded a multi-crore project for research on the use of methane as fuel, Mr. S. Renganathan, Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Government Transport

An industry panel selected Apple Computer Inc.'s QuickTime technology as a standard in a new multimedia specification for the Internet, providing a psychological boost to the beleaguered computer

China will spend billions of yuan by 2000 to prevent further fouling of its contaminated air and water, and will close heavy polluters despite the economic cost, the country's top environmental

The desperation in Ica underscores the reality that this nations is "ground zero" of the atmospheric phenomenon known as El Nino, which is triggered by an immense patch of warm water in the Pacific

With the Indonesian government short of money and preoccupied with an economic crisis that threatens to lead to serious social unrest, concern is growing in Singapore and Malaysia that the region

While the court case initiated by the PVC industry in Italy against Greenpeace's protest on soft PVC baby toys was opened last Wednesday, a Scientific Committee of the European Union published in

In a dark, cold vacant neighborhood near the very edge of our solar system, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is set to break another record and become the explorer that has travelled farthest from home. At

New evidence of a prehistoric civilization and remnants of ancient temples in Angkor, Cambodia, have been discovered by researchers using highly detailed maps produced with data from an airborne