Sullage snuffs out 250 Smriti Van trees
The hoarding screams 'Cherish a Memory, Plant a tree'. But go beyond the billboard and you come face to face with 572 trees standing in two feet deep sullage covered in algae and full of snakes. As
The hoarding screams 'Cherish a Memory, Plant a tree'. But go beyond the billboard and you come face to face with 572 trees standing in two feet deep sullage covered in algae and full of snakes. As
The railways have blacklisted four mineral water companies and banned the sale of their brands at stations and on trains. According to an officials release issued on thursday, action has been taken
The city government has decided to remove the slums from the parks. A number of parks have been used in the past for temporarily relocating slums. This decision has been taken by the new government
A workshop by the Institute for Research in Reproduction has come under fire from 10 non-government organisations for allegedly encouraging the use of controversial contraceptives. The NGOs, which
Cautioning the government against joining Europe's Union for Protection of New Plant Varieties (Upov) which does not recognise farmers rights over new varieties, non-government organisations (NGOs)
Rameshbhai Patel is a prisoner at the Vadodare Central Jail. A throat cancer patient in the final stage of the disease, he is now counting his days. His last wish is to be "useful to the society". So
Tiger phobia , a peculiar mental illness that occurs among villagers in the Sunderbans region, will soon have a remedy, all the way from Switzerland. Several cases surfaced recently at mental health
Fish tags that can communicate with satellites will help to unveil the secrets of the black marlin. Scientists have developed a system that will reveal the annual wanderings of any fish so that
A large number of birds, including eagles, buzzards and kestrels, are falling prey to the power transmission lines which have sprung up in the Indian desert, the preferred domain of these birds,
The Director-general of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has issued a notification prohibiting import of scrap and wastes of plastic except by export promotion zones. The notification in this regard was issued
The go vernment may have to retract its notified move to ban top soil excavation within a specified radius of thermal power plants. the move to force power companies to pay for flyash transport to
The World Bank has for the time being ruled out further investigation into the complaint of non-compliance with its policies on indigenous people affected by a bank-funded project in Karnataka.The
China has set up a sperm bank to help in efforts to artificially breed the South China Tiger, an endangered species. There are just 53 of the tigers left in Chinese zoos and nature reserves, and only
With the advent of the monsoon season, Kala-azar epidemic has started to ravage four Terai districts of Nepal, according to a hospital
The Orissa government has decided to exempt all forms of water tax for farmers in the cyclone-affected districts for the rabi season, state Assembly was informed on Thursday
Traditional paper bags were back in Himachal Pradesh as ban on recycled polythene carry bags came into force. The ban on the recycled polythene bags covers the entire area.
Forest officials in Assam are worried about the increasingly violent nature of wild elephants which attacked a village in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Wednesday and trampled to death at least
Chief Minister of Karnataka N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday warned that cases under Preventive Detention Act would be booked against those found guilty for destruction of the forests. Addressing a
Gene campaign and Centre for Environment, Agriculture and Development (CEAD), non-government organisation (NGOs), have come up with an alternative draft treaty to the Union for Protection of New
Pollution is no respector of national boundaries. But meteorologists can still be surprised by the distances that large quantities of airborne crud are sometimes able to travel. The American