Zoo neglect causes 3 deaths
Two deer and one blackbuck have reportedly died in the Sanjay Gandhi Botanical Garden in Patna over the past one week. While caretakers at the park said the deaths occured due to administrative
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Rift Valley fever death toll climbs to 88
The number of Saudi dead from Rift Valley Fever, which struck the Saudi-Yemen border area in early September, has climbed to 88 after another three deaths, the health ministry
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Farmers gherao Rajasthan Assembly
Demanding adequate power supply to farmers, thousands of farmers on Wednesday gheraoed the State Assembly for two hours forcing the State government to lend an ear to their
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India wins WTO case against EU
The World Trade Organisation has declared the European Union's anti-dumping duties on Indian cotton bed linen in breach of free trade rules and ordered it to bring its policy into the line with its
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Marines tell parents about health risks in base's bad water
The Marine Corps is trying to notifythe parents of about 10,000 children born at Camp Lejeune,N.C., from 1968 to 1985 that they may have consumed water contaminated with compounds linked to birth
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Park to protect rare animals
China plans to pump 30 million yuan (US$3.6 million) into the construction of an ecological park for white-headed leaf monkeys in Chongzuo County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southwest
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Fears 'mad cow' now in sheep flocks
Food safety experts in Britain want a mass screening program to test whether "mad cow" disease has spread to sheep.They have also called for a ban on animal remains - including blood and bone,
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Leasehold forestry project under cloud
Although the leasehold forestry project is showing signs of realising its objectives, it might not get extension due to "government's confusion and inaction". Hills Leasehold Forage and Forestry and
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Environmental project shores up coast
China has made headway over the past three years in protecting coastal areas in the northern South China Sea, a senior oceanographic official said yesterday in Beijing. The Integrated Coastal
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HP govt gets tough on poly bag use
The Himachal Pradesh government has directed all officials concerned, the panchayats and other local bodies to take stringent action against those carrying recycled polythene or plastic bags with
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Ford plans $2 billion greening of old Rouge complex
Ford Motor Co. is spending $2 billion to transform its 83-year old Rouge manufacturing complex, a sprawling, concrete-covered icon of the industrial age, into a new symbol of environmental
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NGos, doctors declare war against abortion drug
Women's organisations and gynaecologists in Delhi have opposed the proposed go ahead to the controversial abortion drug, RU-486, for fear of its "widespread misuse."The Indian Council of Medical
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France in grip of fresh mad cow scare
France is in the grip of a fresh mad cow scare. In the last week, three of the country's biggest retail chains have been forced to withdraw tons of infected beef from their shelves and beef sales
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Shower of toxic froth in Pushpagirinagar
For the residents of Pushpagirinagar,Bangalore it is an eternal shower. Not of exotic flowers, but of toxic froth. The toxic froth mounting up at the outlet of the Hosakere Halli in Pattanagere City
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Closure notice to seven units, plans afoot to clean tank
The Karnataka State government has ordered closure of seven industries for polluting Bellandur tank on the outskirts of the City. It will soon decide whether to breach the Bellandur tank or grant
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US scientists attempt longest human-led crane migration
Twelve young Sandhill cranes and an equal number of biologists and wildlife specialists are on their way to completing the longest human-led bird migration yet, over 1,250 miles from Wisconsin to
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Maharashtra govt nod to 'shelter' for slum-dwellers
The Maharashtra Cabinet has cleared a policy for slum-dwellers, who would be entitled for the government protection, which includes rehabilitation as well as issuance of
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30,000 hit by Bangla floods
About 30,000 people in three northern Bangladesh districts have been swamped by flash floods triggered by monsoon rains and run off from the hills in India, officials said
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Australian doctors find cream to fight cancer
Daily application of a cream used to treat warts has shown a 90 per cent success rate against a common form of skin cancer, an Australian dermatologist said on Wednesday. Dermatologist and researcher
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UCL pilots arthritis treatment
A daring approach to the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis involving destroying cells in the immune system will be presented by scientists from University College London at the annual meeting of the