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A day after the Kali Gandaki A (KGA) officials signed the tender for "Lot 7" of the multi-million dollar hydropower project with TATA-Marubeni, the second best bidder slammed the Ministry of Water

The European Commission is heading for a clash with European Union nations unless it heeds a call from them to change a controversial proposal on the labelling of genetically modified soya and

Santiago's authorities have decreed a state of environmental emergency in the Chilean capital as freak warm weather continues to worsen the city's winter

Family doctor's leaders in UK are threatening a revolt over the government's NHS reforms, fearing loss of independence and freedom to refer and prescribe in the best interests of their

Renato Ruggiero, director general of the World Trade Organisation, promised more dialogue with environmental groups to allay their fears that world trading rules threaten the environment. In his

A minimum of Rs. 4,000 crores per annum is expected to be sanctioned for the implementation of various watershed programmes all over the country, during the Ninth plan, said Dr. G.B.Singh, Deputy

The morgues in the state are facing space problem, irregular power supply, non-functioning of cooling system and insufficient supply of water. Most of them are responsible for environmental

India has achieved a world record by accomplishing five nuclear tests within the span of 48 hours, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Emergy, Dr R

It's near perfect weather in Shimla, except that it is reeling under acute water crisis for the past four days, forcing angry residents to take to the streets in protest and block traffic on the

The world's first spaceborne rain radar-abroad the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), a joint U.S.- Japanese mission- is exceeding expectations for accuracy and resolution, and the