In a more that is likely to dilute the Supreme court's coastal regulation zone notification (CRZ), the Union government has given Maharashtra the go-ahead for clearing construction projects on the
The Kerala Government has granted permission to Cochin Refineries Ltd (CRL) to set up its own water supply system to meet the water requirements of the refinery. The State Cabinet approved the
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry(Ficci) has written to industry minister Sikander Bakht urging a policy to allow participation of the corporate sector in reforesting of degrated
In India, tobacco claims ten lakh lives every year, 3,000 lives every day and one life every ten seconds. By the year 2000, it will claim one life every three seconds. Two crore Indian children get
Making call from a public booth of a hospital ward can prove to be dangerous as mouthpiece of a telephone is a potential vector for transmission of diseases, a study has warned."Telephone infection"
The debilitating heat wave sweeping across Orissa for the last one week has once again brought to focus the destruction of the forest cover in the state at an alarming rate during the last 10 years.
The Kerala government has banned fishing trawlers from operating in the Arabian coast during the monsoon season to conserve fish wealth. The ban comes into effect from 1 June and will last for 45
The Kerala Government is likely to abandon the Rs 75-crore Kuwait-aided "Kerala Fisheries Development Project for Prawn Culture", following steep rise in the project cost caused by the delay in its
If promises could be turned into safe drinking water, then Delhi's thirst would have been quenched. Even as the city goes dry in the grip of water-borne diseases, authorities have taken to the
City hospitals are registering a steady increase in number of heat stroke patients for the past few days. Deaths also have been confirmed. On an average, each hospital is getting around four heat
