A judge in Paris on Friday threw out the suit filed by four anti-asbestos associations seeking to stop the departure of the French aircraft carrier the Clemenceau to India. With the last legal hurdle
Though RJD president Lalu Prasad disappointed Bollywood "dream girl" Hema Malini by not making roads in Bihar as smooth as her cheeks, the Nitish Kumar government is in no mood to give her a chance
Holding the existing rent control act responsible for urban decay and corruption, Union Minister for Urban Development S Jaipal Reddy called for a
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has approved a policy to develop residential areas in smaller towns and villages having a population of more than 10,000 and offer plots at reasonable
Concerned over rising pollution levels, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed the Union Petroleum Ministry and oil companies to facilitate introduction of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) for
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, asked major cities in the country to evolve their own technically and economically feasible solution in mass transport systems, keeping in mind their individual
Deopahar, a hillock situated by the NH-39, three kilometre off from Numaligarh is a biodiversity hots pot in the Assam State. The area is also the habitat to several species of wild animals.
River Jhelum in Jammu and Kashmir is losing its sheen at an alarming speed. Experts reason global warming besides human follies are at large responsible for its shrinking surface. Besides global
The new year might not usher in the eagerly awaited green revolution in Ahmedabad city in Gujarat. The directive banning pre-1991 smoke-spewing rickety rickshaws and the order to convert the rest to
It will be a while before Chennai city in Tamil Nadu gets its 'green' buses. The Metropolitan Transport Corporation's plans to procure buses fitted with engines conforming to Bharat Stage III
Rapid growth of concrete jungles and commercial exploitation of resources are fast depleting the biodiversity of India, which is regarded as one among the 12 largest biodiversity-rich nations in the
A Haryana village is now on the web. Hansdehar, a small Haryana village with a population of about 2,000 people, is now part of the worldwide web. Or, to put it more precisely, Hansdehar has a
The total number of satellite galaxies of the Milky Way has increased to 20 with the discovery of four new ones. The pace of new discoveries suggests that many more such satellites remain unknown,
Next time you bite into an apple or slice a tomato for your salad, just be careful. You could be using a pesticideladen fruit unfit for human consumption. Preliminary studies conducted by Delhi's
While south Delhi's long wait for water may have ended with the recent commissioning of the Sonia Vihar plant, dry Dwarka has moved one step closer to see its rusty taps come to life. The Delhi
Faced with shortage of manpower to handle conservation work in the 24 circles of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the Union culture ministry has decided to outsource the conservation of
Media reports say that some cotton growers in the Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh, are chasing away pests from their crops not with chemical pesticides but with what they term as "quarter-spraying'. A
With the promised supply of water to Harkesh Nagar, Okhla Phase I and Phase II in his constituency still not taking place despite the Sonia Vihar water treatment plant having become operational, the
An advanced forecasting model that predicts several types of extreme weather with substantially improved accuracy will shape forecasts that serve more than a third of the world's population by late
The latest assessment of the depletion of the ozone layer that protects life on earth from excessive solar radiation indicates that the recovery of damage to this layer is likely to the delayed
