Illegal loggers face the chop
A police investigation report on illegal logging in Thailand's Salween national park has recommending prosecution of 16 suspects, including forestry officials and logging businessmen. The suspects
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Only one-third of country's forest area productive
Only one-third of the estimated 4.20 million hectare forest area or 4.8 percent of Pakistan's total geographical area is productive while the remaining two-third is maintained for environmental
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Project to tackle arsenic poisoning in Bengal
The All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Heatlh of Calcutta, which has developed arsenic testing kits, will implement the scheme soon.
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Drug with potential to destroy chicken pox virus developed
British scientists have developed a new drug with potential to destroy a family of herpes viruses capabel of causing chicken pox and
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Karnataka emerging second biggest centre in auto industry investment
Study: A study by KPMG has identified Karnataka as the second biggest emerging centre for automotive industry, in terms of investment. The study was done at the behest of the Karnataka Government and
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US warns EU on gene crops
The US has warned it may take the European Union to the World Trade Organisation over its resistance to genetically modified foods if the two sides cannot resolve their differences on the
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Narmada level rising fast
steps taken for evacuation : People living downstream of Narmada in Broach district would be evacuated to safer places since its level is rising continuously as a result of heavy rain in the
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To lose weight, get shots of hormone made by fat cells
Tests on a nine-year-old girl, who tipped the scales at 94kg, found that daily injections of a hormone made by the body's fat cells can produce dramatic weight loss and control a raging appetite.
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Celeste urges Indian companies to adopt waste reduction methods
The US ambassador to India, Richard Celeste, on Thursday called upon industry to adopt modern waste reduction techniques and sound environment management methods at a function following the
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New 'coronary screening' technique developed
The Metro Heart Institute at Noida has claimed that Purshotam Lal has developed a new concept and technique called "metro coronary screening". It can detect all sorts of blockages with about the same
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Energy Dept. to expand plan on helping nuclear workers
The U.S. Energy Department said on Thursday that it would expand its proposal to compensate contractor employees made sick by nuclear weapons work to include those at the uranium-processing plant in
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First food drop to starving East Timorese begins
The first flight carrying food to thousands of starving East Timorese refugees left Darwin today, a United Nations spokesman said. UN humanitarian coordinator Ross Mountain said an Australian air
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Health care activists target women
The demographic and political reality that increasingly colors the debate over restructuring Medicare and Social Security in U.S. is that old age is a space largely inhabited by women. Women not only
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New spin on music on the net
An Internet start-up company was set to introduce a World Wide Web site that is designed to bridge the competing worlds of on-line digital music and the traditional recording industry. The site,
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Farmers take protest to Capitol Hill
Hundreds of family farmers held a rally on Capitol Hill to protest against federal agriculture policies they claim are causing economic ruin in much of rural America. Farmers and ranchers from across
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Flood-hit Vietnamesse have nowhere to go
Villagers swampted by the wost floods to hit Vietnam's Mkong Delta in decades face weeks of sodden unvertainty and fear as flood waters rise relentlessly around their fragile homes and crumbling
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Health Mela from Oct. 29
AIDS, cardiovascular diseases and tuberculosis will be the main focus at the health festival called the Perfect Health Mela '99, organised by Health Care Foundation of India, an NGO.The health mela
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US steps up pressure in hushkits dispute with EU
A top US trade official warned that time was "shortening up" for resolving the dispute between the US and Europe over hushkits-special engine mufflers used on many older aircraft to reduce noise
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Greater secrecy proposed for gene crops
The UK government is considering greater secrecy on the location of genetically modified crop trials as it struggles to protect them from environmental activists. The public will only be told the
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FAO boosts economics of agriculture
Agriculture's economic contribution has been neglected and needs to put back at the centre of the international agenda, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. While the main