Kids join hands to ' clean India '
Pledging their commitment to environment conservation, over 400 children from 35 different Delhi schools and from 17 other cities, on Feb 2nd made a human chain in the Capital to spread the message
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River deadline for green board
Calcutta High Court has given the Central Pollution Control Board seven weeks to file a report on the stretch of the Hooghly that flows along Calcutta and its neighbouring
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Parents urged to inform children about AIDS
Parents should freely talk to their children about AIDS to create awareness among them about the epidemic. This was the view shared by the participants of a painting contest held at the Islamabad
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Population seen peaking at 127.74 million in '06
Japan's population is expected to fall to about 100.59 million in 2050 after peaking at roughly 127.74 million in 2006 -- a year earlier than in the last report -- according to an estimate released
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Kamaiya rehabilitation delayed
Tension surfaced between the two government bodies after the employees of the Land Registration Office formed for providing land to the liberated Kamaiyas (bonded labourers) were arrested by the
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Call to conserve environment
Nepal's Minister for Population and Environment PL Singh addressing the 10th anniversary of the Women's Committee for Environment Conservation in Kopundole, spoke of the need to encourage youths to
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Prepare for floods and gales, warns Met office
Flood agencies in Britain are preparing for rising river levels, with rain and high winds forecast into the weekend. The Met office said very wet weather was likely over the next few days,
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Science will catch up at waste site, U.S. says
The U.S. Energy Department plans to ask permission to dispose of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain before it has finished designing the repository, and it hopes to begin burying the waste long before
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Congo's angry mountain
The smell was like burning rubber mixed with pepper,and brought teras to the eyes. A six foot thick tongue of black lava filed the main street in Goma, heaving in places, coughing up flames and
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Give Rs. 25 cr to environment ministry: Bandhu
The Delhi Environment Ministry wants the next budget to allot Rs. 25 crore for its schemes which couldn't be completed last year due to insufficient funds. The Rs. 8 crore given in the 2001-02 budget
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Our cities are the filthiest world over
The latest environmental fix in Delhi, once again under the pressure of the Supreme Court, is the relocation of polluting industries situated in the areas that are in non-conformity with the city's
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SARCE key findings suggest steps for promoting ecotourism
Educating visitors before they arrive at destinations and providing them with good interpretations during their visit are important for promoting ecotourism products of a particular area, key
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Madhya Pradesh rich in medicinal plants
DG, ICAR Dr. Panjab Singh described the state as exceptional in production of medicinal plants and flowers. He called for exploiting the export potential of
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Gujarat earthquake : slow pace of rehabilitation
Notwithstanding the tall claims of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi about the relief and rehabilitation work in the earthquake affected districts of the state, nothing much seems to be happening
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More penalties in the offing for PUC violators
Even while underscoring the need for tackling automobile emissions by "stirring up civic consciousness", the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Chairperson, Sheela Rani Chunkath, hinted at more
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Form action groups to tackle pollution : Krishna Iyer
The "defeatist syndrome" taking over the minds of people regarding environmental degradation should be resisted, the former supreme court Judge, V.R. Krishna Iyer, said. Criticising the argument that
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Computers that fit in matchboxes!
These computers are smaller than matchboxes. They can perform all the functions that personal computers do though they don't have huge memory nor high computing power. These devices are used in
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INSAT 3C will be ready for use by month-end : ISRO
India's latest multi purpose geostationary satellite, INSAT 3C will be ready for use by the month-end, the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, K. Kasturirangan, has said. And 30 more
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China offers lion to Kabul
A wildlife park on the outskirts of Beijing has offered Kabul's decimated zoo a lion to replace Marjan, the long suffering big cat who died last month, the official Xinhua news agency reported on
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If not cars, salt trucks will raise dust
The illegal traffic plying inside wild ass sanctuary in the Little Rann of Kutch(Gujarat) 5000 sq km salty expanse, declared a wild ass sanctuary in 1973, will never cease, thanks to the salt