Erosion eating away beaches at a fast rate
Cha-am and Hua Hin, favourite seaside vacation spots in Thailand for aristocrats since the reign of King Rama VI, are threatened by coastal erosion that is eating away beaches at an alarming pace.The
News
-
-
Workers' health deteriorates as industry booms
Thailand's rapid advance to industrialisation has also witnessed a critical increase in the deterioration of workers' health over the past 25 years, research conducted by the Thailand Research Fund
-
SC raps Delhi Govt on Yamuna pollution
The Supreme Court came down heavily on the Delhi Government for non-compliance of its earlier orders directing that steps should be taken to ensure that no injurious pollutants were released into the
-
Forest scam
HC orders SIT probe against officials: The High Court bench in Nagpur has ordered the setting up of a special investigation team (SIT) to go into the tree-felling scandal in the forest areas of
-
Israel bans hunting as guest workers' tastes run wild
Israel has ordered a three-year ban on hunting after Thai guest workers were blamed for eating everything from wolves to gazelles and birds.At first, conservationists thought the cause of an alarming
-
Rising number of suicides in drought-affected AP
As the specter of famine due to severe drought looms large over Andhra Pradesh, villgers narrate harrowing tales of hunger pangs, thirst and suicides as the speechless livestock and birds wander is
-
Govt plans steps to prevent seafood poisoning
Japan's Health and Welfare Ministry decided Tuesday to introduce a set of comprehensive measures to prevent acute enteritis from contaminated seafood products by strengthening the supervision of
-
Drought not national calamity
Govt :The Government today sidestepped a strong demand by all political parties to declare the current spell of drought as a national calamity, saying it would treat it as a national problem by
-
Sulphur compound caused Coca-Cola illness
Prosecutor: Belgian prosecutors have closed their probe into last year's Coca-Cola crisis and will not file any charges, a spokesman for Coca-Cola said on
-
Officials working to prevent spread of west Nile virus
A sound public health plan is in placenationally to combat further spread of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, which caused an outbreak of encephalitis in New York City last year, federal health
-
200 buffalo calves may lose lives in Gir census
Some 200 male buffaloes procured by the state forest department to assist in the five-year lion census to be carried in and around the Gir National Park may have to lose their lives in an operation
-
Scientists advise to check impact of drought
Looking at the severe drought situation in western India, scientists of the Disaster Studies Group, Department of Geography, University of Delhi, have suggested that the development programmes of
-
It's not as bad as media says
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, after a three-day extensive tour of Sirohi, Jalore and Barmer, returned to the State capital on Monday and immediately went into a huddle with his council of
-
Integrated forest policy urged
The just concluded three-day meet of the Commonwealth Forestry Association (CFA) here has urged the governemnt to evolve an integrated national forest policy so that no ministry or department harms
-
A 'tendu-patta' story unlike any other
The senior Congress(I) leader, Mr. Arjun Singh, today reiterated the Congress Party's commitment to the cause of the tendu leaf pluckers and said that Madhya Pradesh has set an example before the
-
Govt to challenge basmati patent in US
The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that steps were being taken to challenge the patent on basmati rice granted in the United States before an appropriate forum
-
'Good' drought needs no solution
Drought management is an exercise in which the Kutch administration can boast of considerable experience. And why not? After all, in this drought prone district of Gujarat, the present crisis is the
-
Drought stalks Kalahandi as govt schemes stay a mirage
The situation in Orissa's Kalahandi district, currently experiencing acute drinking water problem, has been further aggravated by the intense summer heat. Rivers, including Ret, Udanti and Sandol,
-
All-party meet today
Teo meet the grave drought situation facing the country, the Centre on Monday released one lakh tonne of foodgrains each for Rajasthan and Gujarat. Prime Minister Atal Bihari vajpayee has convened an
-
A wheelchair that listens to you
A voice-operated wheelchair with an option of being operated by a joystick has been indigenously prepared by a group of scientists here from the Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute.