The extradinary effort put in by Bangladesh to achieve near universal access to clean water seems to have backfired in large parts of the South Asian country. Villagers are staying away from tube
Farmer indebtedness is on the rise in Haryana and Punjab as most of them are preferring moneylenders over commercial banks, according to an official study by Ministry of
The Clinton Administration says it intends to revamp the nation's system for allocating livers to people awaiting transplants so that patients most seriously in need of the organs will have priority
A Dutch biotechnology company has announced it has successfully cloned two female calves. The two genetically identical claves are in good health after their birth last Tuesday on a farm in the
The forests are ablaze again in East Kalimantan, part of Indonesian Borneo. As a result, the poisonous smog which cloaked a large area of South East Asia last year may return sooner than had been
The Environmental Protection Agency's decision to delay its final report on PCB contamination of the Hudson River exasperated New Yorkers who have waited 20 years for a plan of action to clean the
Although El Nino reappears regularly, it has never caused such damage to the United States. For some weeks now, severe rain storms have been battering California. Tornadoes ravaged several countries
Heavy rains have caused flooding in areas of sourthwestern Afghanistan over the past week, killing at least 30 people in one of the five stricken provinces, UN and Afghan sources in Pakistan
The Karnataka High Court today ordered a CBI probe into the alleged payment of kickbacks in the setting up of the Rs 4200-crore coal-based power plant by Cogentrix Engineering at
