The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has warned units engaged inreprocessing hazardous wastes like used oil, used lead acid batteries, zinc ash and non-ferrous heavy metal scrap.Such units
The Union Cabinet today approved the setting up of a group of ministers to monitor the drought situation in the country. The group of ministers on drought will be headed by the finance minister and
Plantation and rice-based cropping systems seem to be the only viable alternatives for the Andaman and Nicobar islands.Dr S.P.S. Ahlawat, Director, Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI),
Scientists have criticised as unethical an experiment sponsored by aerospace giant Lockheed Martin in California to investigate the effects of a chemical component of rocket fuel on 100 human guinea
To document the role of hereditary factors in causing epileptic syndromes, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is in the process of developing a large data base of families with
SC: Sounding a stern warning, the Supreme Court today observed that polluting industrial units deserve no mercy and have to relocate as the health and well being of residents of Delhi was
Forty schools and a university were closed in southern Sri Lanka today because the Health Ministry feared that an outbreak of dengue fever may turn into an
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the world's largest oil pipeline company for spills that reached waterways in seven states including the largest ever recorded in South Carolina.The
Following the information technology revolution, the next "big thing" is predicted to be the bio revolution. Unrealistic as it may appear at the moment, but this revolution may be closer than you
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in what would be the most ambitious river cleanup in the nation's history, plans to order the General Electric Company to spend a half-billion dollars to
Relocation of polluting industries may become tougher now for the Delhi government as the villagers of Narela and Bawana, where the industries are to be shifted, have decided to scuttle any plans to
Two more French supermarket chains announced that they had sold beef potentially infected with "mad cow" disease. At the same time, the authorities took further steps to prevent the spread of the
The Supreme Court today pulled up the Delhi Development Authority coming under the Union Ministry of Urban Development for evading its responsibility and not taking steps to relocate the polluting
A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice, Mr A S Anand, directed the Central Zoo Authority chief to inform the court about the steps taken to preserve the tiger populations in
The governmental Rural White Paper contains much welcomed promises of extra access to rural areas and protection of wildlife, as well as controversial proposals for new house building.Amongst
Dioxins in Europe are still exceeding recommended safe levels for human exposure, despite having dropped by 50% since the end of the 1980's, say European scientists.In a recent report, the European
In Pitkyaranta (Russia), a newborn boy can, on average, expect to live just past the age of 57.5.Life expectancy in Russia has fallen in 6 of the last 10 years. If fell every month last year alone,
Frustrated at the failure of India's government and opposition to argue the case for economic reforms they both advocate in theory, one of the country's leading think-tanks has taken to the
An international programme to eliminate trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness,will announce that it has cut the disease in half in pilot studies among 2m people in Morocco and
Oxford GlycoSciences will announce an alliance with Glaxo Wellcome to identify proteins that are present in patients with a particular disease. Glaxo will fund OGS, a proteomics company, to conduct
