A referendum shows almost 98% of all eligible voters in Chiba Prefecture in Japan are against building an industrial waste plant in their backyard. The poll in Unakami was the fifth local referendum
Thailand will request that the United States trade mark office revoke a trade mark under the name "Jasmati" used by an American firm on its rice product to prevent public misunderstanding that the
Cholera has broken out in Murree - Pakistan's only major hill station and a tourist resort - and has claimed some 18 lives over the last fortnight. According to reports,
Soldiers have blown up dams and lifted floodgatesto divert floodwaters from the Daqing oilfield in Heilongjiang province of China. By blowing up the dam and lifting the floodgates in Zhaoyuan,
The macroseismic and aftershock studies of last year's Jabalpur earthquake have revealed a "deep-rooted seismogenic fault" located within the Narmada south fault zone, according to J R Katyal,
The Sunderbans mangrove ecosystem, a world heritage site that contributes up to 66 per cent of the total mangrove cover in the country, is in dire need of concerned conservation efforts. Against the
India has lost its dispute with the European Union regarding patent protection for pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical products, and the institution of a system for granting exclusive marketing
Environmentalists have protested against any prospecting operation to be carried on by the public sector Kudramukh Iron Ore Company in the Karnataka National Park area. They have petitioned Karnataka
Delhi becomes the first city in the country to exclusively run its vehicles on unleaded petrol from Tuesday. But almost all of the city's 289 petrol pumps have started vending unleaded petrol, even
