A couple crusading for conserving energy and environment has devised a massive solar cooker which can cater to 10,000 people at a time. Shirin and Deepak Gadhia have set up the giant cooker in the

The fifth meeting of the National AIDS Committee will be held in the Capital on Monday to discuss national AIDS prevention and control policy and national blood

The Karnataka government was against the township as the project posed pollution risk. Mr. Patel told reporters at his native Kariganur village. "We cannot take the risk of polluting water from the

Goa has identified at least nine major and several minor chemical industries which would have to compensate its victims suffering from occupational hazards due to handling of substances or wastes

A law to regulate disposal of hospital wastes has been framed for the first time in the country by the Ministry of Environment. The law not only lays down the framework for safe disposal of hospital

The Delhi High Court on Friday issud notices to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), its Chairman D R Mehta, Secretaries of Finance, Law and Company Affairs and Agriculture and

In a major breakthrough, chemists in Delhi University have produced for the first time the tiniest "polymeric nano-particles" which they claim, can revolutionise oral drug delivery system and

A major relief operation was under way on Sunday to find survivors of a tidal wave that killed an estimated 1,500 people in villages on a Papua New Guinea lagoon. Six hundred victims, mostly children

The number of rare river-dolphins, found in the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Chambal rivers, is dwindling alarmingly, falling from 3,500 in 1992 to just 1,000 to 1,200 at

Eminent environmentalist Banka Behari Das appears to be on a collision course with the Orissa government on the issue of the proposed Dhamra port, whose foundation was laid