The high court has asked the Director General of Health services to be personally persent on November 29 and assist the judges in deciding a public interest litigation seeking that direct blood
At a time when environment protection has become the crying need of the hour, thousands of green trees have been felled by the Railways in Hardwar.
India has sought funding from Japn for three new forestry projects - Aravalli, Rajasthan forestry development and phase-2 of the Gujarat integrated forestry development
A British animal welfare group said yesterday it had exposed a cruel and secretive trade in endangered baboons which were being sold from Tanzania to medical research organisations in the United
The Supreme Court reserved its judgement on the legality of withdrawal of TADA cases against forest brigand Veerappan and his associates in exchange for securing freedom of abducted Kannada actor
In a classic example of the right hand now knowing what the left is doing, the Bureau of Indian Standards has advisory guidelines on an item banned by the Union environment ministry - mongoose hair.
When, on October 18th, the United States Congress agreed to end 40 years of sanctions on the sale of medicines to Cuba, the announcement had a slightly pathetic ring. For, despite those sanctions,
Marine biologists, studying the death of coral reefs in the Indian Ocean-stretching from South Africa to India, plus all those islands-have provided dramatic evidence of global warming. A study
The national parks, sanctuaries and closed areas for wildlife in Rajasthan are facing their worst ever water and fodder shortage. Senior forest officials say that the death of many wildlife
It will be compulsory for landowners to control invasive alien plants on their property once new regulations in the Conservation of Agricultural Resources Act are passed in South Africa, Gauteng
Of the 34 million HIV/AIDS cases in the world, 24 million, or 70 percent, are in Africa. Life expectancies are down dramatically. The number of orphans has surpassed 10 million. The number of
India has made tremendous progress in eradicating the ancient scourage of iodine deficiency, the single most preventable cause of mental retardation, by making cheap, iodized salt available to most
Initial results from air and water samples taken at the site of a cargo ship that sank in the English Channel show no presence of a highly toxic chemical feared to have leaked into the water, a
Italy, France's biggest beef market, joined a string of European countries closing their doors to some imports of cattle and beef from France because of fears of "mad cow"
Timber importers association have threatened to move court if the government did not revoke the notification charging an inspection fee of Rs 600 per tonne for imported
For months, President Thabo Mbeki doggedly endured a relentless shower of censure, refusing to agree that HIV causes AIDS and dismissing his critics as "blind defenders of the faith." The South
Deep in the heart of a grassy valley in Bihar, thousands of labourers are helping build India's nuclear dreams at the country's only uranium mining complex.Anti-nuclear activists say the two images
Six young people below the age of 25 become infected with HIV every minute and girls rate of catching infection outpace those of boys in many places, says UNICEF's annual report 2000. At the end of
The first ever three-day international workshop on presence of excess fluoride in water which causes fluorosis will be held from January 22 to 24 at Old Vidhan Sabha Bhawan in Bhopal. The function
An experiment on humans for scientific research must ensure safety and dignity to its subjects. This is one of the key guidelines laid down by the Indian Council of Medical Research recently. The
