As teams on fact-finding missions have started visiting Lalitpur district in Jhansi to examine the high incidents of suicides, the district authorities have identified poverty prone areas to study
A high-powered panel looking into the issue of hazardous wastes has found that containers full of toxic substances "exported" to India by other countries are lying unclaimed in several ports and
Makers of plastic tableware are on the defensive as concern arises over the health threat posed by them. The reason for the safety concerns is that the plastic tableware is made with polycarbonate,
Japanese farmers, food processors and wholesalers are rushing to get certification from U.S. organizations that designate agricultural produce as organic, before the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
A promising new strategy of gene therapy for the treatment of diabetes has been developed by a trans-Pacific research team including scientists from Yokohama City University, Mt. Sinai School of
Whale saving has reached the final frontier. A one-time cosmologist and now professor at Chiba Institute of Technology has received the go ahead to use satellites to trace the migration of whales.
The government of Costa Rica and Societe Generale de Surveillance Holding S.A. (SGS) announced the certification of a carbon offset program that will preserve over 1.25 million acres of Costa Rican
A forest protection committee has been constituted under the convenorship of Indira Tamang at an all party meeting in Dharan Muncipality to protect 100 hectares of forest area in the Charkose Jhadi
The Guwahati Refinery (GR), the first public sector refining unit in the country, is all set to manufacture lead-free petrol after completion of the Isosiv project, according to its general manager,
Power Minsiter P.R. Kumaramangalam today vowed not the bow down to pressure from environmentalist Sunder Lal Bahuguna and asserted that power from the 1000 MW Tehri hydro power project will start
