Capital in grip of heat wave
The mercury shot up to 41.4 degrees Celsius today, breaking the normal weather trend which prevails in the Capital during this period of the year. According to a Meteorological Department official,
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2 earthquakes rock Taiwan
Two earthquakes rocked eastern Taiwan on Saturday but there were no reports of damage or casualties, the Central Weather Bureau
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New virus jumping from pigs to humans, causing Malaysia epidemic
A new virus that seems to jump from pigs to human beings in causing an encephalitis epidemic in Malaysia that has already killed 92 people, the US centre for Disease Control and prevention reported
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Earthquake rocks northern Taiwan
An earthquake, measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale, rattled Northern Taiwan Sunday but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualty, seismologists
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Chamoli disaster renews fears on Tehri dam
After Sunday night's devastating tremors in the Chamoli district of Uttar Pradesh, the government was quick to declare the nearby 2,400-MW Tehri dam project "earthquake-proof" a tad too quick, say
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Kerala villagers determined to reclaim Chaliyar
India's longest running environmental crusade is against a reyon and pulp factory on the Chaliyar river in Kerala that recently claimed the life of an activist who died of cancer. K. Abdul Rahman
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FDA warns on Warner-Lambert drug
Two recent setbacks for Rezulin, the diabetes treatment, povide ample room for competitors to grab market share from Warner-Lambert, manufacturer of the blockbuster drug, over the next few years. A
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EU offers olive branch on aircraft noise
The European Union averted the immediate threat of a trade conflict with the US by postponing for a month adoption of rules to curb aircraft noise and promising to consider changes to the
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Drought threatens Bangladesh rice crop
Drought is threatening Bangladesh's premier rice crop again after last year's devastating floods swept away millions of tonnes, a leading economist said. "Our hopes for a quick agricultural recovery
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Arecanut farmers face uncertainty as disease threatens crop
The arecanut farmers in Kerala are struggling to fight an unmanageable yellowing disease of the trees in the arecanut belt, which has cut down the crop by 50 per cent. The arecanut cultivation has
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Apples for pines
A silent but devastating destruction of Himahcal Pradesh's pristine forests is taking place right under the nose of the government. The annual migration of Gorkha labourers from Nepal to the apple
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CAG detects revenue loss of Rs 62 cr by Geology and Mining Dept
Even as Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahant, while presenting the Rs 1,517 crore deficit budget in the State Assembly , admitted that the shortfall in receipts and expenditures have
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Drought affects North Cacher hills
Due to long absence of rainfall, large-scale deforestation and alarming increase in jhum cultivation in North Cachar Hills, where 80 per cent of the total population are agriculturists, the people
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Carbon dioxide is a threat to reefs
Scientists said on Thursday they had found another potential threat to delicate coarl reefs, that of carbon dioxide dissolved in sea
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Viral outbreak seen in AP shrimp ponds
Disease has broken out again in the shrimp ponds of Krishna, Guntur, West Godavari, Prakasam, Nellore and East Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh. Viral outbreak(white spot disease) has been
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125 evacuated from quake-hit areas
The Army has evacuated over 125 persons from Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts of Uttar Pradesh which were devastated by earthquake last Monday. Called out hours after the killer-quake struck on
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Starvation threat grows
People are expected to be starving in Kosovo within 10 to 14 days unless an international relief effort can be mounted, the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid organisation of the United
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Fear in the forest
The recent judgment by the National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) holding that the tribal Van Gujjars living in the proposed Rajaji National Park in the Shivalik ranges of the Himalayan foothills
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Experts to probe subsidence in WB
An alarming rise in cases of land subsidence in the Raniganj coal mine belt in Burdwan district of West Bengal has become a major cause of worry for geologists. In the last of such incident on
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Malaysia to end killing 830,000 pigs in 2 weeks
Malaysian health officials said on Sunday they hope to finish slaughtering some 830,000 pigs within two weeks in a battle to curb a viral epidemic that has killed 85 people. More than 430,000 pigs