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
"It is startling to know that more than 20 million people in India alone are carriers of the Hepatitis B virus. Aflatoxins can enter into human and cattle food chain if the contaminated material is
The Todas of Nilgiris are as endangered a community as their most sacred and beloved assets, the horned, grey woolly buffalo. While they number 1,500 in population, their buffalos total about 1,000
The Uttaranchal Chief Minister, N.D. Tiwari, today ordered the G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology to immediately conduct a survey of the magnitude of threat to the coming mango crop in
India and Cambodia today agreed to explore new avenues to diversify further bilateral cooperation in areas including agriculture, irrigation, water resources and sustainable forest management. This
The attempt to push commercialisation of Bt cotton before trials were completed and before approvals came from the regulatory authority, was questioned in New Delhi by NGO scientists, Suman Sahai and
The former Chief Minister, Madan Lal Khurana, today charged the Sheila Dikshit Government with inaction with regard to relocation of closed industrial units in Bawana as per the promised date of
On the face of it, a sum of Rs. 10 lakhs may seem like a pitifully small amount to impose on a company which, as long as six years ago, was held guilty of degrading the environment by its "callous
During the decade 1991-2000, nearly six lakh people lost their lives owing to meteorological and hydrological disasters all over the world. Asia, which occupies one-third of the global area,
India made history of sorts at the World Trade Organisation last week by withdrawing at the last moment an appeal preferred by it against a panel ruling over its industrial policy on automobiles,
The Centre will seek a national consensus for the promotion of the "two-child norm" in pursuance of achieving the average total fertility rate of 2.1 by 2010. The aim is to reach the average couple
