The Pollution Control Board (PCB) issued a show cause notice to the petrochemicals division of Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd (FACT), asking why action should not be taken against it for
At least 40 people have been killed in torrential flooding that has swept through the southern Chinese province of Hunan, bringing the death toll from floods this year to
The long held belief that damaged heart tissue can never recover may be wrong. When patients awaiting heart transplants were placed on a mechanical pump to keep them alive, their dying heart cells
The life-affirming river Ganga might actually disappear sometime in the hypothetical expanse of the future. This is a fear which has been haunting environmentalists and scientists over the years.
Malaria is a recurring menace in Dakshina Kannada and it becomes more acute during the rainy season.As the monsoon has already reached the Mangalore shores, the citizens and administration are once
Environmentalists are up in arms against the Cogentrix Energy Inc., the promoters of Mangalore Power Company, for going ahead with the construction of the rehabilitation colony. Even as the Union
Increased poaching, fast diminishing habitats and the geneal apathy of the Government vis-a-vis conservation of the country's animal and plant species have cast shodows over the survival of the black
lack of adequate recharging stations and no headway in talks with the Delhi government has forced Eicher Motors Ltd to put the plans to electrify its 30-40 seater buses on the backburner.However, the
Using new technology developed by the Jamshedpur-based National Metallurgical Laboratory(NML), it is now possible to design eco-friendly melting furnaces which can convert the large number of
An enterprising Chinese farmer has claimed to have developed a technique by which high-quality cholesterol-free edible oil could be abstracted from tea seeds. The technique, pioneered by Mr. Fang
