Seven companies are in the race for setting up two projects near Chennai to generate power from municipal solid waste. The state-owned Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) intends
The Food and Drug Administration has taken steps to ensure that imported medicines are safe, but significant problems remain with how the agency protects U.S. consumers from low quality drugs from
The neem trees is being threatened by the Die-Bach fungal disease in Karnataka. According to a field survey conducted over the last four years by a group of researchers from the University of Mysore,
Two doctors aboard space shuttle Columbia cut into the legs of six anaesthesised baby rats as part of a study of how nerves develop in weight-lessness.It was the first surgery ever performed in space
The Haryana State Flood Control Committee has granted sanction to as many as 17 schemes to combat recurring floods, erosion of agricultural land by the Yamuna and modernisation of drainage network in
The District Administration has ordered immediate closure of 46 dyeing units in and around Chennaimalai in Perundurai taluk of Erode district for non-compliance of pollution control
Mr Kishan Baburao Hazare, popularly known as Anna Hazare, will be given the 1998 Care International Humanitarian Award in recognition for his commitment and efforts towards sustainable development
The people's movements from all over the country have once again communicated their rejection of India's agreement with the World Trade Organisation(WTO) and have pledged to intensify opposition to
A seminar on "Five Decades of Water Resources Development of India", held in Guwahati today in connection with the 13th Water Resource Day, once again highlighted the fact that despite being endowed
The National Fishworkers' Forum has threatened to go on an indefinite agitation from May 27 to demand withdrawal of the Aquaculture Authority Bill, abandonment of the move to amend the Coastal
