ADB blasts govt over Melamchi
A top official of Asian Development Bank (ADB), the leading donor agency on Melamchi Drinking Water Project, criticized the Nepal government for failing to take donors into confidence on the 30
A top official of Asian Development Bank (ADB), the leading donor agency on Melamchi Drinking Water Project, criticized the Nepal government for failing to take donors into confidence on the 30
Smog digest is a news service on vehicular pollution based on news clippings selected from leading Indian newspapers and newsmagazine. It also highlights the key developments from South Asian countries.
The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania conducts research on the role policy institutes play in governments and civil societies around the world. Often referred
Climate change impacts are gendered. Many UN and international conferences have constantly highlighted women and their work environment relationships over time and have concluded that environmental change
Even as questions are raised about the efficacy of the H1N1 vaccine, India has given leading French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur permission to start trials from Wednesday. While the trials will take about three weeks, the single dose vaccine will be available from the second week of February.
The Delhi University (DU) will soon get a rehabilitation centre to help students quit smoking and drinking, Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a programme on "smoking-free campus" organised by the students' union organisation. "The Delhi University is leading the anti-tobacco programme and I promise that very soon the varsity will get a rehabilitation centre," he said. According to World Lung Organisation data, out of the 40,000 students studying in the North Campus of the university, 24 per cent boys and seven per cent girls are smokers.
The Guwahati Refinery (GR), the first public sector refining unit in the country, is all set to manufacture lead-free petrol after completion of the Isosiv project, according to its general manager,
Melbourne's Australian Stem Cell Centre and a leading US university with $US3 billion ($A4.1 billion) to spend have sealed a unique deal that forms one of the most significant groups in regenerative
Smog digest is a news service on vehicular pollution based on news clippings selected from leading Indian newspapers and newsmagazine. It also highlights the key developments from South Asian countries.
The efforts of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol have, over the last 25 years, translated scientific realities into political decisions leading to concrete action on the ground. The experience of this
<p> This study is an attempt to assess the extent of toxic metals, including Pb, Cd, Cr, Mn and As in groundwater and some cereals collected from Shibganj area of Chapai Nawabganj, Rajshahi,
<p>Centre for Science and Environment’s Pollution Monitoring Lab carries out tests on leading ‘energy’ drink brands like Red Bull and Cloud 9. Finds high levels of caffeine in 44 per cent of the samples.</p>
In a debate that may lead to confrontation between Egypt and eastern Africa nations over the River Nile, Kenya's members of parliament have voiced concern over the legality of an international treaty
“80 per cent of school students are getting less than eight hours of sleep on school days” Children aged between 10 and 18 are spending an average of six to seven hours a day using some kind of electronic
Ivory Coast has one of the best telephone networks in Africa, yet, the Internet revolution seems to have swept past it. In fact only 12 of Africa's 54 countries are linked to the Internet,
<p>In every region of the world, poor diet is a leading cause of both malnutrition and chronic diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and specific cancers.1–3 In 2013, 38.3 million
The Union ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF) has initiated moves to regularise collection of used lead acid batteries for recycling. The ministry held their first round of talks with the
India, which has one of the highest population of HIV-infected people in Asia, has witnessed a decline in new infections by a significant 56 per cent from the epidemic's peak in 1996, with other Asian
Alcohol is now the leading killer of Finnish adults, with consumption reaching an alltime high last year in the Nordic nation, officials said. More than 2,000 people between the ages of 15 and 64
Researchers say they have produced the first genetically modified primate, a development that could lead to better ways to study drugs for treating human diseases such as Alzheimer's and AIDS.