The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in association with State Pollution Control Boards, monitors the water quality of rivers. New Delhi: Over Rs 5,800 crore has been sanctioned for pollution
The number of cases of the deadly SARS virus in Britain is likely to grow before it shrinks, the country's chief medical officer said in an interview published. Speaking to The Independent newspaper,
Outbreaks of the deadly flu-like SARS have peaked in Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam, but not in China, where the virus first emerged last year, the WHO said. China, the world's most
Notwithstanding concerted efforts from the government, female infanticide and foeticide continue to take place in certain pockets of Tamil Nadu, causing an alarming decline in the female sex ratio in
Asian leaders announced wide-ranging steps to control the spread of SARS as the World Health Organisation warned that the infectious disease could yet become endemic. A joint declaration by the
The newly-set up Central Power Research Institute's Earthquake engineering and vibration research centre, in Bangalore is the first of its kind in the country offers consultancy services to check the
At least two fishermen were killed and 50 persons injured when residents fisherman dominated villages Mahisa and Brahampura clashed inside Chilka lake in Orissa. Conditions of 10 persons were stated
Twenty-six cows died at Deesa Taluka of Banaskantha district in northern Gujarat after they consumed "fermented green fodder," reports from district headquarters
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that he would propose a world campaign against hunger at the G-7 summit in France in
The Maharashtra environment department has finally decided to allow loudspeakers to blare till midnight for two days during Navrati and three days during the Ganpati festival. A governmental
While India is going through forest degradation due to its heavy industrialisation and expansion of human habitation, the latest Forest Survey of India Report - 2001 claimed that a forest cover of
