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The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights

An Indian scientists has challenged the estimates of methane a greenhouse gas produced from paddy fields

American industry tries to power its way into the Indian renewable energy market

South Africa's stubborn Whites are blocking the "new order's" desegregation in schools

A COMPREHENSIVE database on legumes, the first of its kind in South Asia is being set up by Sudershan Kumar, a researcher at the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. The bean family,

Samar Baruskar was arrested on December 14, 1994, by the Sion police in Bombay for trespassing in a private building. He was looking for a toilet. The small plot of land that the residents of nearby

A pesticide that enters the European otter's food chain has severely reduced its population

A nonchalant French government plans to throw open its virgin islands to tourists and game hunters

The Central Pollution Control Board plays foul in inventorising NCR's hazardous waste generation

An insecticide obtained from marigold flowers is effective against mosquito larvae