Greenpeace launched its second expedition to the Western Arctic to document the impacts of climate change and protest new oil development in the pristine offshore waters of Alaska'a Arctic
Days after the Union Environment Ministry asked the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah to clamp a total ban on the trade of shartoosh shawls as these were made after killing the
SHV Energy Ltd (SEIL), a 100 per cent subsidiary of the $18 billion Netherland-based SHV Energy Group, has entered into long term contracts with a large number of companies in the Taj Trapezium area
The Wildlife Protection Society of India has received word from the International Crane Foundation in Russia that the lone pair of Siberian Cranes that winters in Keoladeo National Park in India has
The WHO is working on an international framework convention on tobacco control, with a view to effectively tackle the health problems posed by the use of tobacco in various forms. The proposed
Cuttack, the commercial capital of Orissa, on Sunday experienced a virtual bandh as the toll in the current heat wave rose to 100 with reports of 50 more people succumbing deaths from different parts
Scores of youngsters ended a long march against child labour in Geneva on Saturday, demanding an end to the greed of bosses and the complicity of governments. Between them they had covered a total of
The Kyoto Protocol (agreed to last December at the Third Convention in Kyoto, Japan), seen as a small step towards controlling greenhouse gas emissions, has been described as defective in so far as
