A criminal complaint has been registered against Union environment minister and Shiv Sena MP Suresh Prabhu in an FIR lodged by 80 investors, including a former MP Gopal Mayekar, who have charged Mr
The Chennai Corporation for the second time in a year will experiment with biocide to control the mosquito menace prevalent in many parts of the city. The earlier initiative to use the bio-larvicide
The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) today challenged Chief Minister Digvijay Singh's claim that the task force had been constituted only to suggest alternative heights for the Maheshwar dam to ensure
In recent months, there have been reports from east and souhtern Africa warning of the possibility of yet another serious drought in Africa. These alerts came barely two years after governments the
When the medical colleges and hospitals in Bangladesh were in dire need of medical equipment, a foreign grant of more than Taka 80 crore to purchase the emergency medical equipment is likely to be
Nutritionists and health experts said that the rate of malnutrition among child-bearing women and under-six population in Bangladesh was top in the world nutritional status. This was stated by
Rains have doused many wildfires on the Indonesian side of Borneo Island but blazes are still raging in at least four forest regions, a govenment official said on
In Assam 50.4% per cent of the children are malnourished with 17 per cent suffering from severe malnutrition, UNICEF state representative, Dorothy Rozga said, while launching of UNICEF's 'The State
The Vrikshalaksha Andolana, an environmental organisation, has urged the Government not to evict the tribals residing within the Anashi National Park at Dandeli in Uttara Kannada
Industry opponnents of a treaty to fight global warming have drafted an ambitious proposal to spend millions of dollars to convince the public that the environmental accord is based on shaky science.
