Poverty is arguably the biggest burden that Bangladesh faces and this view is supported by a survey that was undertaken jointly by the Centre for Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific
Under the leadership of Mr. Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), fire fighting experts from around the world have come up with an immediate, first
Chairman of the Central groundwater board (CGWB) Dr D K Chadha on Tuesday said that the Centre had circulated a draft bill among water scarcity states enabling them to make legislations to prevent
The hunger-strike by some senior legislators, swamijis of various mutts and several senior citizens of Bagalkot district demanding better and sympathetic rehabilitation package for those who would be
The National Academy of Sciences has taken the extraordinary step off disassociating itself from a statement and petition circulated by its former presidents that attack international efforts to
Thanks to a new imaging tool developed at NASA's Stennis Space Center in South Mississippi, farmers and foresters may now be better able to detect unhealthy crops and trees before the damage becomes
With a view to providing protection to cows and stop cow slaughter and smuggling of the animal, the Uttar Pradesh Government has decided to implement effectively and strictly the Cow Slaughter
With cases of diseases like leptospirosis on the rise, the Gujarat Government has decided to take out a Jeevan Raksha yatra from May 1 to 7. The aim of this yatra is to educate people on how to
The Bombay High Court has passed an interim stay order preventing Indal, a prominent aluminium manufacturing company, from carrying out bauxite mining in the Inderganj area of Kolhapur district,
Worried over the gross misuse of green belts by urban development bodies, the forest department has mooted a comprehensive measure for conservation of urban forest covers of Uttar Pradesh. Till now
