Conservancy starts at home for these city residents
Mumbai generates more garbage than its municipal workers can cart away. Instead of merely complaining, a few conscientious citizens have taken the initiative to convert garbage into organic manure
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Drought relief works an eyewash
For the villagers of the drought-hit districts who are being paid as low as Rs 9 per day for working under the scorching heat, drought relief works are nothing more than an eyewash-- meant more to
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Water shortage drives residents out
Known as the land of peacocks, pigeons and poverty, Thar district in southern Pakistan has been ravaged by its worst water shortage in 100 years, causing thousands of people to flee the region,
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NUM pledges support for asbestos victims
The National Union of Mineworkers on Friday handed over a memorandum to a representative of the British High Commission in Pretoria in support of South African asbestosis victims seeking compensation
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120 ill after taking polluted water
About 120 people of Kumaralingam and Chamarayapatti villages of Udumalpet taluk in Coimbatore district complained of vomiting and diarrhoea after drinking polluted Amaravathi river water on Saturday
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Warning against water-borne diseases
The Municipal Commissioner, Mr. S.P. Aggarwal, has asked the citizens to take precautionary measures against water and vector-borne diseases. The appeal came in the wake of a number of cases of
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'Divergent' world experts to debate Aids
More than 30 international experts with divergent views on Aids would gather in Pretoria at the weekend to discuss the causes of the disease, the South African government announced on Wednesday. The
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Debt relief needed to tackle AIDS in Africa
With the United States Government on formally recognising the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a threat to US national security, it should push for faster and deepr debt relief for those countries, especially in
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Trian kills another tusker in Dehra Dun
The killer railway track passing through the Rajaji National Park on the Dehra Dun-Haridwar route claimed yet another tusker's life last night. According to Forest officials, the Doon-Howrah Express
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Petrochemical park
public hearing tomorrow: The Petrochemical Park proposal of the Tamil Nadu Indusrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) comes once again under the spotlight and the future of 7,155 acre-wide verdant
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IIT study urges 'pollution tax' on petrogoods
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, has suggested imposition pf "taxes for pollution" on production of petrogoods including naphtha, derivatives such as PP/PE/HDPE as also poly sacks. In a
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4 brain chemicals in babies may foretell autism and retardation
Scientists have discovered what they believe may be biological markers in the blood of newborn infants who later develop autism and mental retardation. The markers consist of abnormally
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APPCB to prosecute medical institutions for failure
The Andhra Pradesh pollution control board has decided to prosecute medical institutions in the state which fail to get authorisation for their biomedical waste management by June
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Worldwide protest over seal hunting
Environmentalists planned to stage an international day of protest against the Canadian seal hunt on Wednesday, claiming that pups were skinned alive and caught on steel
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Penicillin resistant gene in pneumonia bacteria identified
The door to the development of new drugs that would act synergistically with penicillin by blocking the production of the brached peptides is now
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A second death linked to gene therapy
Researchers at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston failed to report the death of a patient in gene therapy experiments and might have contributed to the growth of cancer in another patient,
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Students' diets will be studied for toxins
The diets of thousands of secondary school pupils in Hong Kong will be studied to determine the level of toxic chemicals in the food they eat every day. The programme - due to start at the end of the
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Drought may hit Punjab
Punjab too could face drought if rains don't come soon. Slow melting of snow in the mountains and inadequate winter rains, not much water has flown into the reservoirs of Bhakra and Pong dams. This
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Plan to keep floods at bay
The Housing and Local Government Ministry has a long-term plan to overcome flooding, but it can only be done after the Town and Country Planning Act has been amended. Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting
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Prevention key to fight against cancer, report finds
At least half of all fatal cancers are preventable, and the failure to do so is the most important factor contributing to Ontario's cancer death rate, says a new report from Cancer Care Ontario. This