With senior police officer Kiran Bedi taking up the cause of cleaning the environs around the famous Kirti Mandir in Porbunder, the 15,000 strong community of fishermen in the area could find
The officials of the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai are chalking out plans to reintroduce some of the "excess population of animals" back into the
The famous Rock Apes of Gibraltar are to be fed contraceptives to curb a population that threatens to grow beyond control. The contraceptives would be hidden in the monkey's food and some of the
Making provision for leasing instead of outright purchase of lands for corporate farming, in selected centres and encouraging research and development in both private and public sectors to develop
They are walking for others and with a purpose. Thirty-two Britishers flying across Indian ocean have come down to Garden City, not on a jaunt, but to participate in a walkathon organised to raise
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has chalked up a series of programmes to mark the International Year of the Ocean, which is being observed this year. The
The shift from a subsistence level rural setting to a planned urban set up has come as a severe jolt to the inhabitants of Kuksheth village. So much so, they'd rather term their relocation as
In some sections of India's fish processing industry, women workers are an exploited lot.
A division bench of Calcutta High Court, while permitting the use of loudspeakers for campaigning till 10 p.m., hauled up the Election Commission (EC) for being ignorant of environment laws.
Experts have confirmed the spread of a deadly haemorragic fever, that has already killed hundreds of people in north-eastern Kenya, to areas within 100 miles of the capital,
The US and Latin American banana producers told the European Union that initial proposals for changing its banana import regime to comply with a World Trade Organisation ruling were not
The Delhi High Court has given four months time to the Delhi government to place before it a revised plan on hazardous industries in the
150 more killed : Another series of tremors jolted remote north-eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing another 150 people just days after an earthquake touched off massive landslides that left
Finance from the World Bank to help the Bangladesh Government tackle the menace of arsenic poisoning is under way and a programme is expected to be finalised by mid-1998, according to the Country
A vaccine against E. Coli, the deadly food poisoning bacteria that forced the recall last year of millions of pounds of US beef, has been tested successfully on a small group of volunteers,
Federal health officials, alarmed by spiralling sales and the fashion for cigar-smoking among women and the young, may soon require cigar advertisements to carry the U S Surgeon -General's health
The US space shuttle Endeavour has returned safely to the earth after a 10-day mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir. The mission that returned yesterday involved a successful docking
An international conference on medicinal plants is to be held from February 16-19 . The initiative for hosting this conference has been taken by Four Bangalore-based organisations-the Foundation for
Indian Cotton Mills' Federation (ICMF) has proposed a joint committee to examine the high incidence of contamination in cotton. The industry considers Indian cotton to be one of the most
Greenpeace protested against Chilean plans to allow a major logging project in the rain forest of the far southern Tierra Del Fuego region. Members of the group demonstrated in the capital in front
