The first indigenously-developed rice husk-based biomass power project will be inaugurated by the State Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh on Tuesday at village Jarouda near Raipur in Chattisgarh.
Large quantities of hazardous asbestos continue to find its way into India. A notification was prepared to ban its import by the Union ministry for environment and forests but withheld later.
The first real insights into the the whales and dolphins of one of the world's last great areas of ocean wilderness, the west coast of Scotland's Atlantic Frontier, are beginning to emerge. A
The Environment Agency will impose stricter regulations on soot emissions from factories in fiscal 1999, a move that will affect about 200,000 facilities, agency officials said over the weekend. The
Last month was the hottest on Earth since records began more than 100 years ago, and chances are this will be the hottest year in the past six centuries. The Vice-President of
A fifth flood crest is forming in the Yangtze River's upper reaches.Reports in Wuhan said that while people were mopping up in the aftermath of the fourth crest, heavy rainfall had created a new
The Food and Drug Administration in Thailand plans to divide herbal drugs into four groups based on their production process so as to facilitate their registration. However, manufacturers have
The flow of institutional credit to the agriculture sector through public sector banks touched Rs 31,012 crore in 1997 from 162 crore in 1969, a Parliamentary Committtee was
Some 10 environmental groups in Thailand have warned the prime minister to consider carefully an attempt to grant mining companies concessions covering more than 2,000 rai of forest classified as
After a day of respite, torrential rains fell again yesterday in the country's central region, hampering cleanup and restoration operations in flood-devastated areas. The National Disaster Prevention
