Also opposes DJB’s pleas regarding water shortage in Capital The Haryana government has claimed that the Delhi High Court does not have the jurisdiction to decide on the Yamuna water-sharing dispute
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has leased transponders on a Thai satellite for one year during which time it will launch two of its own satellites. An ISRO press release issued at
The urgent need to keep environmental pollution under control was highlighted at Dehradun, by the Indian Institute of petroleum (IIP) Director, Mr T S R Prasada Rao, at the conclusion of a workshop
The Tamil Nadu Government, the World Bank and the Union Government will together spend Rs. 590 crores on the health and nutritional status of women and children in the State over the next five years.
The Iwokrama International Rain Forest Programme, the world's largest adventure in sustainable management of pristine tropical rain forest in the Amazon, is a unique programme with powerful message
Keeping alive thr country's traditional wisdom in medicine is a group of health practitioners caled "Gunis". Once spurned as mendicants by townspeople and despised as quacks by the men of modern
The Government has worked out a new strategy to tackle the poaching of elephants in the Nilgiri Biosphere. The new strategy will yield results only if Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala get together at
A major earthquake, with a magnitude of above 8 on Richter scale, is likely to hit the Himalayan region any time in the next decade" as the seismologically vulnerable mountain ranges are undergoing
Eco-tourism is slowly but surely catching up in the Himalayas, yet skimming a knife's edge, with benefits accuring from it slow in coming and few takers among the entrepreneurs. Ideally, eco-tourism
From garbage dumps to flower beds. Well, the concept appears farfetched but this is the motto adopted by Vatavaran, a non-governemnt organisation working for an eco-friendly environment in the city.
If millitants took a heavy toll of the endangered Kashmir Stag - commonly known as Hangul - in the troubled times of the Valley, the securitymen, too, are being accused of having plundered wildlife
