Wildlife team has good news
Ivory ban stricter: The three member delegation of wildlife officials, which had gone to Nairobi, to attend the conference on the wildlife conservation is back with some good news for wildlife. The
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Hearing disorders on the rise in city
The incidence of hearing disorders caused by noise pollution or noise trauma in the capital is witnessing an increase. Five to seven per cent of the population in the capital have developed hearing
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Expand Delhi from Shimla to Palwal
To tackle the problem of growing populaiton and pollution in the national capital, Greater Delhi Citizens Forum, a non-governmental organisation has come up with a novel suggestion - to extend the
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Drought-hit migrate to Punjab, Haryana
Shepherds along with their cattle have begun migrating to Punjab and Haryana from the neighbouring Rajasthan which has been hit by a severe drought . Water and fodder scarcity has forced many
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Poisonous fodder claims 157 cattle
As many as 157 cattle died at the Sayla Panjrapole (cattle camp) on Sunday afternoon after comsuming green fodder that had come from Borsad. The first death was reported at around 1.45 pm and within
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Destruction reaches grand scale proportions
With only seven per cent of the original forests now in tact, Conservation International has declared the Atlantic rainforests as one of the 25 environmental 'hotspots' in the world. Ninety per cent
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Andhra forms conservation panel
The Andhra Pradesh government today constituted a 15-member water conservation mission comprising eminent people, including Anna Hazare, to tackle the state's perennial drought problem on a long-term
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Fiber-cancer tie in doubt
Two rigorous studies involving thousands of people have failed to confirm one of the most widely held beliefs about diet and health : that eating low-fat, high-fiber foods can reduce the risk of
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Congo animals at risk
Thousands of wild animals in a national game preserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo are in imminent danger, with the once glorious park now nearly abandoned after years of hostilities.
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Backlash behind the anxiety over globalization
Many fear that free trade harms wages, jobs and the environment and its fueling a second wave of protests against globalization that kicked off in Washington, D.C., on Apr.9. So many people are angry
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National Academy of Sciences on coastal protections
Excessive discharges of nitrogen and phosphorus are causing environmental damage on all U.S. coastlines, according to a new report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). An April 4 press
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Treasury's Summer's on initiative on infectious disease
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers says President Clinton's Millennium Initiative, designed to combat infectious diseases in the world's poorest nations, is attacking the greatest
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Representative Smith reports on genetically modified plants
U.S. Representative Nick Smith, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Basic Research, released a report April 13 saying that federal regulations should focus on the characteristics of genetically
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For this AIDS scientist, American lives are more precious than others
With 90 participants getting infected with HIV during a clinical trial on the hetersexual transmission of AIDS in Uganda, questions are being raised about the ethics of scientific research in
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Ban AIDS-infected foreigners from country, demands Assembly panel
The estimates committee of the state Legislative Assembly has recommended an immediate ban on the entry of foreigners who are either afflicted with the Acquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or
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Globalisation under fire
Mass protests against free trade and global capitalism are fast becoming a leitmotif of the new millennium. Last year, demonstrators overran the City of London and the World Trade Organisation talks
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Cleanliness drive by NDMC
The New Delhi Municipal Council launched an intensive cleanliness drive on Monday which will continue till April
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Invest 5% of GDP in healthcare
India should invest at least five per cent of its Gross Domestic product in health policies instead of the present about one per cent.There is a need for a government strategy in the health sector to
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Ethiopia's choice
War or famine? : As months passed without rain and the earth turned to rock, the government of Ethiopia did two things. To the West, it issued increasingly insistent demands for food for its hungry
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Desperate HIV victims line up for trials
American companies are keen to conduct drug trials in South Africa because the government does not provide anti-viral drugs to the public sector, making people desperate enough to try anything, Dr