Power minister P R Kumaramangalam on Thursday said his ministry had constituted a monitoring cell on fast track power projects to help iron out all problems and remove bottlenecks facing private
South Korea should boost its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that lead to global warming, domestic and foreign environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) urged yesterday. The
The Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (UPSEB) on Thursday signed two power purchase agreements (PPAs) with the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and A V Birla's Roza Thermal Power Plant
The Union ministry of environment and forests has a joint secretary and an additional inspector-general of forests to visit the inundated Kaziranga National Park in Assam. The World Wide Fund for
Wyeth Lederle has begun clinical trials for a new anti-diarrhoea vaccine in the country. This was announced by Baldev Arora, managing director, Wyeth Lederle, at the company's annual general meeting
The Centre has allocated Rs. 12.5 lakhs for generating awareness and increasing people's participation in the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board's project for purifying the waters of Chambal
The four winners of the prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj awards this year were announced. Devendra Kumar, director, Science for Villages of Wardha in Maharashtra, has been chosen for application of
The Director of Medical and Rural Health Services, Dr. M. Kamatchi, said that efforts had been made to set up a "central organ registry" .The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University had done some
In a unique study of nitrogen pollution from farm fertilizer that gives farmers concerns equal weight to those of ecologists, two Stanford researchers, Pamela Matson and Rosamond Naylor, may have
