In a unique initiative , as many as 180 hotels led by the Taj, Obneroi, ITC, Park and Leela have decided to launch a two-week campaign to create environmental awarness among the industry. Dubbed as
Goa's health care reforms get worse : Goa's health budget is shrinking and campaign groups in this state have voiced their concern over its decline. It has shrunk from Rs 1,082 lakhs to Rs 772 lakhs
Two silt-laden, turgid tivers are rapidly changing course in eastern India, and threatening to submerge villages and towns, and fertile farmlands, both in Indian and
Research by the Scottish Agricultural College may lead to an environmentally friendly alternative to fungicides. The work centers on "film-forming polymers" which form a barrier on the surface of the
About one lakh people to be displaced on completion of the Punasa dam across Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh are likely to get the rehabilitation package on the lines of that received by the oustees
A Rs 210 crore World Bank-assisted project for garbage and effluents disposal in Chennai will be implemented from January 1999, Tamil Nadu pollution control minister N.K.K. Periyasamy told the state
A team of Australian scientists are developing a computerised walking crane, or "dragline", that is expected to be the largest industrial robot in the world. The 75m tall robot is designed to carry
A legislation for gradation of laboratories in Pakistan under Environmental Protection Agency will be made applicable in the next four months. Headed by Dr. Samiuz Zaman, the committee on laboratory
The Government has decided to set up Gujarat City Development Corporation, for planned systematic development of fast growing urban centres and conglomerates in the State. The decision to have the
The United States on Wednesday set three definite conditions for India, including the signing of the CTBT without conditions, avoiding weaponisation and deployment of ballistic missiles, to "put
