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Environment and human rights crusaders are hopeful that the Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr. Suresh Prabhu, would view forest and wildlife protection policy from the people's point of

With hardly two years left for Karnataka to utilise its share of the Krishna waters as per the Bachawat Award, the Karnataka Government seems to be training all its energies to complete the Alamatti

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Iowa State University (ISU), USA, have signed an agreement for cooperation in agricultural research. The workplan for 1998-99 was signed by ICAR

A man-made plight of the drought prone people of the Kalahandi, synonymous with starvation death and hunger, is unlikely to change much by the turn of the century, if progress in the long-term action

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has bulldozed a 520-acre wooded area at Tilpat firing range near Hindon air force station, Ghaziabad, presumably in preparation for a fire power demonstration. The IAF has

The Union government has assured Rajasthan of clearance to all the major pending power projects in the state within a month-and-a-half, according to Chief Minister Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. Shekhawat

Russia has offered to provide a Rs 17,000 crore loan to set up the Kudunkulum nuclear power plant (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu. The line of credit is the maximum that the Russians have offered in any sector

Goa's efforts to control plastic and other non-biodegradable wastes have failed to make headway with its municipal administrations unable to implement its new garbage-control law. In January, amid

The United Nations Population Fund is formulating a novel "early warning" system to detect cancer among women in Sri Lanka and link it up with government-run women's clinics across the island. The

A new satellite site in Russia's far west is likely to remain unused for the rest of the year due to a lack of foreign partners, a news agency reported on Sunday. The Svobodny Cosmodrome was opened