The Comptroller and audit general report on Pondicherry has blamed the union territory administration for using a drug, sulphaguanidine, defying a ban imposed on its use by the government of India in
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's solid waste management department, in a joint action programme with non-governmental organisations, is actively engaging rag-pickers for segregation of
When the Nepali wildlife authorities recently destroyed a cache of animal trophies, prominent among the lot were a heap of false tiger skins and nails. The skins - artfully dyed hides of smaller
The government proposes to provide safe drinking water in adequate quantity to each rural habitation in the country by the end of Ninth Plan in a major initiative under the Accelerated Rural Water
A scientific team is now examining the genetic profile of basmati rice as part of the Indian Government's effort to build up a cast-iron case against the grant of basmati patent to an American
The 24th meeting of the executive committee of the multilateral fund, created under the aegis of the Montreal Protocol of 1987, to aid the phase-out operations of ozone depleting substances has
The seeds of the forest tree strychnos potatorum used by the tribals of Andhra Pradesh for purifying water may hold the key to remove arsenic in the ground water of West Bengal and Bangladesh,
Fifty years after Independence and irrespective of many laws pasased for their protection, 370 million children in India are still struggling to break free from the shackles which bind them to
The Percutaneous Myocardial Revascularisation (PMR) system, recently introduced in India, might reduce the need for surgery in cases of heart blockages. Costing far less than open heart surgery, this
