One of the world's most remote ghost towns, buried under ice and snow in the Antarctic, is to be cleaned up after almost 30 years, the Australian government said on
Leading US rights organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has urged World Bank President James Wolfensohn to intervene in a bank-funded project in central India on grounds of human rights violation.
The Hindujas have received the much-awaited state guarnatees for their 1,040 MW Visakhapatnam power project in Andhra Pradesh. According to sources, the guarantee, along with the power purchase
Increased use of temporary methods to stop pregnancy may lower fertility rates significantly to 2.3 children per woman, a National Family Health Survey (NFHS) report on alternative contraceptive
With summer fast intensifying and a number of areas already facing a water crisis, it is bow being questioned wheather the formation of the Delhi Jal Board has come at an inopportune time. For, a
The Delhi Government is launching an ambitious campaign from April 24 to create awareness about the fatal Thalassemia disease. On that day, special screening would be done at select hospitals of the
Conservation and environmental protection would become that much easier to tackle if we accept the truth that mankind is only one of the 1.6 million species of living organisms, known to inhabit
Government must take into confidence action groups and NGOs working at the grassroots level before formulation or amendment of policies that have a bearing on natural resource management, a recent
Biotechnologists at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) have patented an improved process to give dull fruit juices a brighter, transparent look. The new technique transforms transluscent
