A group of fishermen blocked Songkhla bay with over100 boats yesterday in a protest against a ban recently imposed in Thailand to prevent them from engaging in anchovy fishing in coastal areas of
Korean and Japanese officials will hold the fifth round of working-level fisheries talks in Tokyo next Monday, the Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry said yesterday. The talks, aimed at replacing the
The Bakun hydroelectric dam project will be revived but on a much smaller scale and at reduced costs, the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohammad of Malaysia said yesterday. He said the
The Kerala government will soon chalk out a policy package to fully tap the small and mini hydel power potential in the state. The government has already appointed a high level committee which
The Karnataka government has decided to constitute an independent power regulatory authority and to allow private sector entry in transmission and distribution of power. Announcing this on Friday,
Hewlett Packard (HP) will offer technology protection scheme to Internet service provider (ISP) clients for setting up nationwide infrastructure. HP vice president, enterprise accounts
The Uttar Pradesh government has sanctioned a Rs 1,000 crore scheme for making Agra green. The scheme includes a Taj trapezium to be built at a cost of Rs 600
Boliden, the Canadian-Swedish mining company, said 95 per cent of the material that escaped from a waste dam at its Los Frailes lead-zinc mine near Seville in Spain had been cleaned up and mining
Since trees absorb carbon dioxide, it may be possible to offset the carbon dioxide emitted when a product is made or used by planting or preserving forests. This promise of "climate neutrality" may
The Federation of Transport Unions Congress today filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a review of the court's earlier decision to remove more than 80,000 commercial vehicles from the city's
