The Kerala government was firm on its decision not to approve participation of Enron in any power project in the state, state electricity minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on

Goa's health care reforms get worse : Goa's health budget is shrinking and campaign groups in this state have voiced their concern over its decline. It has shrunk from Rs 1,082 lakhs to Rs 772 lakhs

A Rs 210 crore World Bank-assisted project for garbage and effluents disposal in Chennai will be implemented from January 1999, Tamil Nadu pollution control minister N.K.K. Periyasamy told the state

The city is in the grip of a gastroenteritis outbreak, with several hundred patients, mostly children being admitted to hospitals with acute cases of the water-borne

Daler Mahndi, the king of Punjabi bhangra, has initiated a drive to make Delhi a greener and less polluted city, it was announced at a press conference here on Wednesday.The main part of the drive is

High pollution levels which have shown no sign of abating forced the government to extend the environmental emergency into Wednesday after ozone reached hazardous levels. Pollution levels peaked on

Between 4 and 5.7 lakh premature deaths occur among children under five years of age and adult women every year due to indoor air pollution an area that has received scant attention so far, a study

Russia's Mir space station has turned in orbit, exposing its crew to continual high temperatures, space officials said on

Every year 10,000 newborn babies in India could be saved from a fatal disorder, had their parents undergone a simple blood test before marriage to find out a possible errant gene. Doctors say over 30

Marine mammals and seabirds on the coast of Peru, including endangered penguin species, were devastated in the now-fading El