Spain fears 'mad cow' cases spreading
Ten days after Spain reported its first case of BSE, or "mad cow disease", the government admitted that the spread of the illness in cattle might be more widespread than initially
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An endangered delicacy
The failure of former Soviet states to control poaching in the Caspian Sea is threatening the survival of the caviar-producing sturgeon : a
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S.C. upholds medicinal classification
In a significant ruling affecting the ayurvedic, homeopathic and Unani systems of medicine, the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of classifying medicinal preparations based on the strength of
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HSIDC pulled up for releasing effluent in flood drain
The Delhi High Court today pulled up Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation (HSIDC) for allowing discharge of effluent by about 2000 industries from Udyog Vihar in Gurgaon in a flood drains
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New survey planned to count factories in city
The city government has found another excuse to delay the relocation of polluting industries out of residential areas as ordered by the Supreme Court. On Monday, the Cabinet decided to hire a
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HP village is India's richest
Thanks to apple produce, two villages in upper Shimla - Baaghi and Kiary - are competing with each other for highest per capital income in the country. At present, Baghi village in Kotkhai tops the
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Govt assures revenue village facilities to 'van grams'
The Madhya Pradesh Government has decided to give facilities of Revenue villages to the Forest Villages in the state and hence the tax imposed for the development of forests has been opposed it,
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Mutated polio vaccine causes outbreak
A mutated strain of polio traced to a vaccine has infected at least three people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing the first cases of the disease in the Western Hemisphere since 1991, a
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Ski resorts take spill in environment report
A coalition of environmental groups is urging skiers to boycott many of the American West's top ski resorts, saying the resorts were not environmentally friendly.The Ski Area Citizens Coalition
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CM adopting double standards
The former Delhi Chief Minister Mr. Madan Lal Khurana, today charged the Chief Minister, Ms. Sheila Dixit, with adopting double standards over the issue of closure of industries in residential area
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Sakhi killed for kingdom
Vedic and tantric experts on Thursday listed the various conditions needed to perform the Tantri ritual, and said the killing of Royal Bengal tigress Sakhi seem to suggest that it was done for that
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NSCN masterminding poaching of rhinos
In spite of several anti-poaching measures initiated by the Forest Department, rhinos in different national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in Assam are still being killed for their horns, which
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Environmentalists set to sue polluters if Bush is president
Saying it was increasingly likely that Gov. George W. Bush would be the next president, a number of leading environmentalists haveenlisted trial lawyers in a strategy to circumvent what they
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Proposed tortoise sanctuary a non-starter
The proposed "Tortoise Sanctuary" situated on the Maibang-Hajadisa road in Langting-Mupa reserved forest in Assam has remained as "proposed" and uncared. Only during winter can one visit the place as
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A hard rain
Politicians and the public should not rush to judgement over the damage caused by rough weather in Britain this week : a
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Dharwad zoo future bleak
A damocles sword is handling over the very existence of a zoological park at Dharwad, following orders from the Central Zoo Authority asking the officials of state forest department to relocate the
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E.P.A. gives its plan on Hudson River PCB's, but a fight lies ahead
Although the half-billion-dollar plan by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to dredge the Hudson River in upstate New York was presented yesterday as the long-sought answer to the river's
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Dredging PCB's could be a cure worse than the disease, G.E. insists
The debate over digging up the Hudson River's last industrial stain has always centered on a single question: Is the cure worse than the disease?And the answer offered by a variety of experts on
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Mozambique bans SA cloven-hoofed products
The Foreign Affairs Department said yesterday that Mozambique had banned the importation of all cloven-hoofed products from South Africa and Swaziland. In a statement the department said Mozambican
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Close all polluting units in 4 weeks
SC: Setting a fresh deadline, the Supreme Court today ordered that closure of all polluting industrial units in residential and non-conforming areas of Delhi within four weeks. This is likely to