US President Bill Clinton has been nominated for the 1998 Nobel Peace prize for his efforts to protect world peace and promote democracy, three Norwegian legislators announced on Tuesday.
Smithkline Beecham (SB) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are to work together to eliminate lymnphatic dilariasis, which often leads to elephantiasis --one of the world's worst disfiguring and
A four-day conference on medicinal plants will begin here on Febraury 16. The conference will focus on conservation of medicinal plants, intellectual property rights and bio-prospecting, the trade in
Greenpeace has received confirmation from the Japanese Government that the last shipment of spent nuclear fuel to France under existing reprocessing contracts took place in December. If no new
The prospects of the rabi crop, especially wheat, have brightened with almost three weeks of consecutive sunshine in the region during this month. Experts of the Punjab agriculture department say
Despite measures teken by the authorities, a sizable stretch of forest land spread over an 20,000 hectares on Khadar area (low-lying) near the banks of the Ganga river and its other tributaries in
LG : LT Governor Tejinder Khanna has refused to grant the Delhi Vidyut Board permission to take its transmission line through the central ridge. Even the Ridge Management Board (RMB) had reservations
The Madras High Court while directing the State Government to set up a Special Task Committee(STC) to prevent deforestation in the Tirupattur area, held that no sincere effort or strategy had been
Asarco, the mining group has reached a $56.3m voluntary agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency on a broad range of environmental issues affecting its 38 US operations. The company
