The Hyderabad metro water supply and sewerage board will cap all those borewells whose water is not fit for consumption. This was announced by the board's managing director L V Subramanyam after a
In a last minute change to the big high way bill that President Clinton will sign next week, Congress has postponed for several years new plans to clear the haze of pollution that often obscures the
The Supreme Court will give its verdict on a writ filed against the Nepalese government to provide food relief in the famine hit areas in mid western hilly districts on June
Slovakia rejected the latest plea by the Austrian government to delay starting its controversial Mochovce nuclear plant, which Austrian experts say may not be
US Government regulators may have greatly overestimated the cancer risk from asbestos, according to new research that suggests the billions of dollars spent to clean up contaminated public buildings
The Kerala Cabinet decided today to impose a ban on trawling for 45 days from June 15 in the coastal waters of Kerala. The ban, on the lines of ones imposed in previous years, is aimed at conserving
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their first direct look at what is possibly a planet outside our solar system-one apparently that has been ejected into deep space by its parent
An advisory panel at the US Food and Drug Administration recommended approval of an eagerly awaited vaccine for Lyme disease, a potentially fatal illness afflicting about 15,000 Americans each year,
