While American and European children get "green" environmental educations that turn them into tree-huggers who believe every sapling is special, South Africans get a different perspective on nature.
The M P State Government has decided to constitute State AIDS Control Society with an objective to empower AIDS control programme and expand its effective limits in the rural regions. A decision to
Monsoon hit the Capital on Tuesday, 13 days before its scheduled arrival, creating a record for the century. According to the Met office, the arrival of the monsoon this year beat the previous record
The Pollution Control Board (PCB) issued a show cause notice to the petrochemicals division of Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd (FACT), asking why action should not be taken against it for
At least 40 people have been killed in torrential flooding that has swept through the southern Chinese province of Hunan, bringing the death toll from floods this year to
With the south-west monsoon all set to descend on coastal Karnataka in the next few days the spotlight in Mangalore has now shifted from power projects, underground drainage, land acquisition and ADB
The long held belief that damaged heart tissue can never recover may be wrong. When patients awaiting heart transplants were placed on a mechanical pump to keep them alive, their dying heart cells
Malaria is a recurring menace in Dakshina Kannada and it becomes more acute during the rainy season.As the monsoon has already reached the Mangalore shores, the citizens and administration are once
A storm that battered Bangladesh's south-eastern coast killed at least 29 people and left more than 100 others missing in the Bay of Bengal, voluntary organisations and monitors said on
China has announced that a massive afforestation project will push back the advancing Gobi Desert. The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, has reported the construction of a 4,480 kilometre (2,800
It is not often that private companies volunteer to pay new tax. For California's wineries, is not just for the hell of it. Faced with the prospect of being wiped out by the spread of Pierce's
Guatemala became the first foreign state to file a lawsuit against the US tobacco industry in a US federal court in an attempt to recover the costs of treating tobacco related
The Centre has sought the views of the state governments on the existing crop insurance scheme as it begins a process to review the scheme, possibly to replace it by a new
One more infant died of an intestinal viral epidemic in central Taiwan, bringing the death toll to 31, as health officials announced the outbreak was under
In what appears to be a major racket of stealing cows from Delhi and slaughtering them in Haryana for selling their beef in the Capital, a city court has directed the Commissioner of police to
Five major organisations of farmers in Punjab have decided to go on an indefinite dharna in Chandigarh from March 15 in protest against the major crisis the State's agriculture sector is likely to
A special dairy project is being launched in Madhya Pradesh to increase participation of women in the dairy sector and the activities of milk cooperatives. In the first phase of this project
"Finding market for Indian wheat would be difficult as most developed countries which produce the cereal like the U.S. Canada, and France give huge subsidies. For the Indian Government to give
The Centre for Application of Science and Technology for Rural Areas (Astra), part of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has developed a unique vegetable and fruit preservative drier which can
The Assam government unveiled an ambitious programme for giving a quantum boost to the agricultural economy of the state involving Rs 800 crore for mechanization of agriculture with loans from the
