Animal experimentation-what is the bottom line
Experimentation with animals is an ethically troubling issue. No one would want to do it, if they can avoid it. But at the present stage of development in science, it seems unavoidable. International
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Rs 21 cr for 33 drought-hit districts
The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet sub-committee on Tuesday sanctioned Rs 21 crore for relief works in 33 drought-hit districts. Apart from this 50,000 metric tonnes of food grains have also been allocated
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Survey on heart diseases
Keeping in view the alarming increase in the incidence of heart diseases in the hill state, Ashadeep, a non government organisation working in the health sector has decided to conduct a comprehensive
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Elephant fest at Kaziranga
Air India, in association with the Assam Government, will oroganise a two-day Elephant Festival at Kaziranga National Park from January 11. The festival, aimed at projecting the culture and heritage
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Pradyut: Assam reserves not infested with rebels
The Assam government has locked horns with the Indian Army over allegations that the state's reserve forests and wildlife sanctuaries have became safe haven for separatists. An army statement said
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Forests being handed over to users' panels in Udayapur
In view of the rampant deforestation in the past few years, the District Forest Office (DFO) , Gaighat, (Nepal) has intensified its acts of handing over forests in Udayapur district to the Community
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Wild elephants kill six
A herd of wild elephants killed 6 persons including four children and injured three others in Dudmara TE under Pangree PS in Tinsukia district in Assam during wee hours yesterday. The rampaging
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Awareness drive on human-elephants conflict
Aaranyak and Wild Symphony in collaboration with Sonitpur (west) Forest Department and Assam Police, Dhekiajuli completed a week-long mass awareness drive on human-elephant conflict at Sonitpur west.
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Man-elephant conflict takes lives of 14 persons in Upper Assam
The much-talked-about and ongoing 'man-elephant conflict' throughout Assam state has taken the lives of eight elephants and 14 persons in the districts under the jurisdiction of Upper Assam Forest
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Elephant menace
As many as eleven quarters of tea garden labourers in Upper Assam's Jorhat district have been damaged by elephants from Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary during the past week.
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Municipality record in waste management
The Kancheepuram Municipality said to be the first civic body in the Tamil Nadu state to achieve cent per cent success in solid waste management by clearing and seggregating garbage every
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Rs 236 crore Haryana package for drought hit
The Haryana Cabinet approved a package of relief amounting to Rs 236.16 crores for the drought affected farmers in the state. The meeting was presided over by the Chief Minister Om Prakash
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The theatre of the absurd
Primary health centres across UP use crude methods to do laparoscopy. Welcome to Sadhauli Kadeem block in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The primary health centre here is proud of its staff's
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EU on the hook
The Brussels Commission laid before European Union fisheries ministers a drastic proposal for cuts of up to 80 per cent in fishing quotas inorder to preserve stock. No wonder the ministers will spend
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Supreme Court modifies order on mining
The Supreme Court which had earlier banned all mining activities in the Aravalli hill range stretching from Rajasthan to Haryana, has modified the order and permitted them if prior permission has
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Govt unwraps 11,000 sq kms of reserved area for mining
The Karanataka State Cabinet on Monday decided to dereserve 11,620 sq kms -- from a total reserved area of 26,464 sq kms -- to facilitate grant of mining licenses, according to Information Minister
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Pollution monitor
A new United Nation's Web site, www.unep.net, has put into the hands of the public the ability to monitor polluting activities of countries and companies anywhere on the planet. An expected
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Farmers face new rule
Factory-style farms that produce large amounts of waste will have to comply with a new water pollution rule the Bush administration is issuing to comply with a court ordered deadline. The new
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America had better listen to Europe
The European Union in an effort to deal with global warming, has approved two important measured : a cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and the trading of emissions allowances, Both measures
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Lichens accurately measure air pollution
The use of lichens to measure air pollution could virtually eliminate the use of mechanical monitoring of air pollution, according to research by a father-son team from Brigham Young University in