A rare treasure in danger
Forty odd unique specimens preserved at Delhi zoo are among the most exhaustive collections of their kind in the country. Yet sadly the collection seems to have very little space to call its own.
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Elephant sanctuary for Hogenekkal soon
Cauvery elephant sanctuary would soon be set up in Hogenekkal forest area in Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu Forest and Environmental Minister P Mohan has said. Distributing welfare assistance worth
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Plastic ban in Tvm from today
Mayor J Chandra has said that the Corporation ban on the use of plastic weighing 20 micrones or below will come into effect tomorrow.She told journalists here today that all plastic products should
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Order on private hospitals
The Delhi High Court today directed the Union Government to put in place a committee to see that Capital's private hospitals and nursing homes meet the mandatory requirement of treating a stipulated
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Puja organisers flout wildlife rules
Animals are stealing the show this Diwali. Flouting the law with impunity, some Kali Puja organisers are keeping animals at their pandals to draw crowds.This is a punishable offence, says the
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Ministry's team studies complaint on mangroves
A two-member committee set up by the Union Ministry of Environment(MoEF) to inspect complaints of mangroves being destroyed for constructing a golf course finally made its scheduled visit.The visit
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9 rice millers get closure notices
The Punjab Pollution Control board has launched a massive drive to check the pollution emanating by the local parboiled rice mills. Nine out of 40 par boiled units have so far been issued the closure
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119248 cattle heads treated
As man as 119248 animals were treated in Poonch district, Jammu, against contagious and non-contagious diseases during first seven months of the current financial year by the Animal Husbandry
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Rare 'Lesser Florical'' spotted near Kolhapur
A female bird of endangered 'Lesser Florical Sypheofides' was spotted at Ambaj Village, 40 kms from Kolhapur, in the
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Rs 25-cr cancer centre from Apollo Group
The Apollo Hospitals Group has set up the Apollo Cancer Institute in Delhi with an initial investment of Rs 25 crore. The institute would offer treatment facilities in medical, radiation and surgical
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Rs 25-cr cancer centre from Apollo Group
The Apollo Hospitals Group has set up the Apollo Cancer Institute in Delhi with an initial investment of Rs 25 crore. The institute would offer treatment facilities in medical, radiation and surgical
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'Hand Wash' campaign in Kerala raises a stink
A joint initiative by the World Bank, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Unicef and USAID for publicising a 'hand washing using soap' campaign in the state built around a core personal
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DNA test can prevent cervical cancer in women
Cervical cancer, which affects nearly half a million women in India and kills approximately 90,000 women every year, can now be prevented from progressing by identifying and managing the pre cancer
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Big leap in medicare for the weak
Medical and health services are one of the various spheres where he Rajasthan Government has taken significant steps to ensure welfare of the weaker sections and provide them security cover. The
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Cholera vaccine from Vietnam for city trial
With the country still in search of an indigenous vaccine to combat cholera, the central body overseeing management of the disease has decided to bring one in from Vietnam to fight the menace. The
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Green face of a Chattisgarh village
"Save the trees" may now have become the mantra for environmentalists but villagers of Bohardi in Berla tehsil had banned felling trees way back in 1990. the result is that the village is surrounded
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Lid blown off timber racket
For Rajen Das, Jiten Burman, Raghu Roy of Gajaldoba, army personnel are not new customers. "They often drop in to buy timber. Twelve army personnel were arrested on charges of smuggling timber in the
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110-year-old Mahabodhi tree faces wipeout
The 110-year-old Mahabodhi tree, under which Buddha attained enlightenment 2,600 years ago, is being attacked by "a debilitating disease" every monsoon, giving the Mahabodhi society and Unesco, who
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Forest land needed for paper industry
Kolkata, Nov. 6: The Indian paper industry will need about six lakh hectares of forest land from the Union government to meet the problem of raw materials, according to Mr. S.K. Bangur, president
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High Court stays land conversion at Ela
The Panjim Bench of the Bombay High Court has stayed, until further orders, any developmental activities being done on a plot in Ela, Old Goa where deforestation over seven hectares of land has been