A villager was crossing a forest track adjoining Corbett National Park when his gaze fell upon an apparently immobile tiger. Curiosity drew him closer, when, all of a sudden, the animal pounced upon
The World Bank, which is funding a Rs 701 crore health serices development project in Bengal, has withheld its mid-term evaluation report as it is not confident about the state government's
The Uttar Pradesh Government is losing about Rs 20 crore annually as per conservative estimates, due to the powerful sand mining mafia operating with impunity in over 386 acres of land. The sand
Home Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka informed the National Assembly that floods and landslides triggered by the recent heavy down pour have so far claimed 57 lives in various districts of
The US may impose sanctions totallling $116.8 millions against the European Union(EU) products to compensate for an EU embargo against US beef containing hormones, the World Trade Organisation(WTO)
Environment ministers from the Association of South-east Asian Nations meet in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday to discuss progress in action plans to combat the recurring haze problem, a statement
As cities develop along the Karnataka coast, the question of how to dispose of the waste generated is one of the central concerns of environmentalists, fisherfolk and citizens' group in the Dakshina
The Vellore Citizens Welfare Forum (VCWF) has urged the Centre and State to disallow the proposal mooted by the Council for Leather Exports (CLE), for taking all the treated tannery effuents from
There is an increase in Nilgiris tahr population at the Mukurthi National Park according to a census conducted recently.The census was conducted by the Wildlife Wing of the Forest Department with the
An experimental flu vaccine delivered with an easy-to-use nasal spray was effective in lessening the frequency and severity of the illness among healthy adults, US researchers have said. The nasal
Repeated failures of cotton crop in the north zone has forced farmers of Punjab and Rajasthan to shift to other crops, including paddy. Not having received adequate returns from the fields due to
The Supreme Court today directed the Chief Secretaries of UP, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Nagaland and Haryana to either appear in person or file affidavits in reply to a petition filed in public interest
The Delhi High Court today issued show cause notices to the Union Ministries of Health and Family Welfare and Food and Consumer Affairs on a PIL seeking setting aside certain provisions of the
Swarms of migratory locusts have descended upon Almaty, the largest city in Central Asia, while destroying more than eight million hectares of surrounding farmland, Itar-Tass reported on
Shrimp farmers in eastern China have been forced to close their ponds to avoid contamination by red tide, a toxic algae spreading in the Bohari Sea. A tide 1,500 square kilometers in size was 10
Greenpeace called on the British, French and Japanese governments to ban the first shipment of plutonium fuel due to depart imminently from Europe to Japan. The international environmental
Overcrowded jails are fueling a frightening new epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis. One of the world's oldest plagues is now its latest. For thousands of years, tuberculosis ravaged European
AIDS is the No.1 cause of death in Thailand. More than 300,000 people have died already, and most people who have the virus are too poor to pay for any sort of treatment. But rather than challenge
In Uganda, tradition overpowers a United Nations drive against female genital mutilation : a
More than 300 people in the Far Eastern Russian region of Buryatia have been infected by tick-born encephalitis this spring, the Itar-Tass news agency said on
