Safdarjung Hospital doctors have successfully operated on a 22-year-old woman suffering from the blue blood disease. The case is said to be rare because patients of the disease do not live more than
The Ministry of Environment and Forests had issued a notification for protection of environment and conservation of the top soil of agricultural land, in May, 1998. But one year past, implementation
A join census of elephants in Orissa, south Bihar and south West Bengal will be held from 3 to 5 May. The census, for ascertaining the number of pachyderms in the region, will be conducted
In a sudden about-face, Governor Chaloemphon Prathipawanit has announced he will no longer push for relocation of residents of three villages hit by pollution from the lignite-fired Mae Moh power
The health department of Gujarat has seized 19.2 lakh banned oxytocin injections which are unauthorisedly sold to cattle owners to raise milk
An earthquake of moderate intensity shook the Delhi are and most of northern India at around 11.30 pm on Wednesday, reports our
An increased intake of potassium in common salt is highly beneficial to hypertensive patients, especially to those who cannot reduce sodium. According to Dr Suninder S. Arora, a consultant at the
On the last day of the Budget session on Tuesday, the Gujarat Assembly unanimously adopted a bill replacing the Urban Land (Ceiling and regulation) Act 1976. The Revenue Minister, Mr Vajubhai Vala,
Six non-Governmental organisations(NGOs) of Assam have urged upon the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to ban inferior quality coloured plastic/polythene carry bags immediately and to
Continued militancy prevented Tripura from conducting the animal census in 1993 and 1997, State Forest minister Narayan Rupini said, reports UNI.However, the Tripura governemnt has decided to
The forests in Dhubri district are facing a virtual wipe out. According to data available here, Atharokotha, Mangaljhora, Rupshi, Tipkai, Chandardinga, etc. reserved forests areas under Dhubri
A high-powered six-member committee has been asked by the Union urban ministry to prepare a reconstruction and repair plan for earthquake-hit Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts of Uttar Pradesh.
With orbit-raising and deployment operations been completed, payload-related activities on Insat-2E have been started with the switching on the very high resolution radiometer meant for
Asha - a community health and development soceity - today launched its new project "Health Care through Community Participation" in a slum cluster at Laxmi Nagar in East Delhi
Arable land in Bangladesh is fast depleting due to human settlement at an increasing rate every year. Human settlement specially for housing has been identified as the main reason for the contraction
lifting soci-economic status of people in lower Kheng : Women in Environment (WIE) is a project growing increasingly popular with local residents on the border of the Royal Manas National Park in
Fast food giant McDonald's and two penniless environmental activists both claimed victory when a court reduced damages in the so-called McLibel trial. A three judge panel of the High Court cut the
During the past two weeks an undiagnosed disease that begins with flu and fever has claimed 34 lives in two remote mountainous Villages Development Committees (VDCs) of Nepal. The cause behind the
Some 150 tonnes of crude oil spilled into the South China Sea across 200 square kilometres of waters when a cargo ship collided with an oil tanker. The collision happended on March 24 off the coast
Twenty years ago, villagers of Kadi in Gujarat's Mehsana district would have said the black buck was an endangered species. Today, they would not be too sure, having seen over the years that the
