Indians today have heart attacks 2.5-to-five times more frequently than people in the West, and by the year 2020 heart disease will be the top killer disease in
Scientists at the G.B.Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development at Almora have drawn attention to the urgent need for developing an action-oriented network programme to protect
Kaziranga National Park is facing an acute financial crisis which has hampered initiation of long-term measures to stop rhino poaching in the area. According to the forest department sources, the
A large section of human rights activists fear that the much-touted Global March Against Labour led by jetsetting social worker Kailash Satyarthi has played into the hnands of Western industrial
On the occasion of World Health Day, the United Nations Population Fund will support the Integrated Population and Development Projects at the district level in approximately 40 districts in six
In every two minutes one woman dies as a result of complications of pregnancy or childbirth in the South Asia region, which accounts for 40 per cent of the global total, Dr Uton Muchhtar Rafei, the
A Chinese pharmaceutical company has developed a "morning-after" birth control pill that once made widely available, could cut the number of abortions each year by as much as 40 per cent, The China
Environment India'98, the country's first international exhibition, conference and film festival on environment, concluded on Monday with a commitment by participants to use ecologically-friendly
Child labourers from 98 countries participating in the Global March Against Child Labour will arrive in New Delhi on Thursday. Celebrity human rights activists Bianca Jagger and Kerry Kennedy Cuomo
