Students' rally to promote eco awareness
Hundreds of students belonging to various schools and colleges today took out a rally in Mahalakshmi Layout in Bangalore City as part of an environmental awareness programme jointly organised by the
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IIT joins pan-Asian initiative to combat air pollution, begins 3-yr project in city
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, has embarked on a three-year project to monitor sources of air pollution in Chennai, isolate hazardous pollutants and suggest means to bring down
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Greenpeace activists held near Carbide plant
More than 100 activists of the international environment crusader Greenpeace and various NGOs representing gas tragedy victims were arrested in Bhopal. The activists were trying to enter the premises
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PPCB move to curb pollution by tanneries
The Punjab Pollution Control board (PPCB) has decided to ask all tanneries working in the Punjab leather Complex to run units to capacity only even as the tannery owners have claimed that a severe
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Thinking green is good business
Should business bother about environment? The question, it seems is more rhetorical than anything else, is the conclusion representatives from business, government and civil society reached as they
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Green Chennai, with a tinge of plastic
If the latest endeavor of the Chennai Corporation proves to be even a semblance of a success, then the anti-plastics activists the world over, would need to look at other vocations to keep themselves
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CM for quick relief to Adivasis
After the 20 deaths due to malnutrition in the Adivasi dominated Ganjbasoda tehsil, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh who came to interact with Adivasis was addressing a meeting at village
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Musi plan mired in flaws, admits Govt
The Andhra Pradesh government admitted in the Assembly that there were 'certain defects' in the Nandavanam project aimed at cleaning up the Musi river and announced its resolve to rectify them at the
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Aid for drought-hit 'not enough'
The Indian National Lok Dal has expressed resentment over the 'meagre' financial assistance provided by the Central Government to compensate the drought hit people of Punjab. It has asked the Central
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Well being of Iraqi children is improving, Unicef finds
When it comes to the UN trade sanctions imposed on Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the official line of President Saddam Hussein's government is that the continued embargo has been
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Private sector may halt funds to AIDS body
Japan Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said that Japan's private sector may be unable to provide funds to a global anti-epidemics fund due to the prolonged economic slump, according to Foreign
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State of the Nation's health
The number of diabetic patients in the country has increased from 19 million in 1995 to 25 million in 2000, Minister of state for Health and Family Welfare A Raja said in a reply in the Rajya Sabha
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Vaccines aren't the only way out against diseases: Nobel laureate
Vaccines are in vogue
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15% Indians deaf: Survey
More than 15% of Indians suffer from deafness and 90% form chronic ear discharge or CSOM. This was revealed in a recent survey, national president of Association of Otolaryngologists of Indian
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Deadlock over Bill on female foeticide continues
The deadlock over the Bill to strengthen the legislation on female foeticide continued, as the special meeting of MPs held here today failed to resolve the differences among them over some of its
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25 lose vision after operation
25 persons have reportedly lost their vision after being operated upon at a 'Free Eye Camp' at Nanaksar Kaleran village in Ludhiana, Punjab. The first case was reported in civil hospital 25 days
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Diarrhoea takes serious turn in Lakshmipur
The diarrhoea took serious turn in Lakshmipur Sadar upazila since beginning of the current month.At least 215 diarrhoea patients were admitted to the Sadar Hospital upto November
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Bad policies lead to famine
A recent report by Action Aid identifies poor economic policies for which the International Monetary Fund must share the blame as a major contributing factor leading to over 1,000 starvations deaths
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Rajasthan to promote medicinal plants
The Rajasthan government has established a state medicinal plants board to promote the farming of these plants and encourage economic activities in the rural areas through conservation, production,
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'NE pine trees can be source of Anti-cancer drug'
Assam agriculture University (AAU) former Vice Chancellor Dr. D N Borthakur today said a rare variety of anti-cancer medicine 'taxol' could be produced out of the bark of pine trees found in