Pune to host four-day IT conference
PUNE.IT.com, Maharashtra's effort to project the city as new Information Technology destination, will be held at Pune between October 25 to 28. The four day event will feature a Global Village
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New York Outbreak Gets New Diagnosis
-The mosquito-borne viral outbreak that has killedfour people and sickened at least 33 others in the New York City area has been reclassified as a rare African and Asian virus that never before has
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Receding hopes for polluted waterways
The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) has a programme to improve the sewerage system in the city at a cost of Rs. 1,000 crores and within a time frame of
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SC order has industrialists rushing to green experts
Nearly 97,000 industries in the city are in a tizzy over the recent Supreme Court Order, which said that no untreated water will enter the river Yamuna. If the industries fail to set up their
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Manhattan Park battles mosquitoes
Manhattan's Central Park was sprayed with insecticide on Monday in New York City's battle to kill mosquitoes after a rare outbreak of St. Louis Encephalitis that claimed three
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Malignant malaria claims 17
Seventeen persons have died of malignant malaria in the city since January, according to figures released by the Calcutta Municipal corporaiton. This is four more than last year's toll, says a staff
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NY battles mosquito threat
Manhattan's Central Park was sprayed with insecticide yesterday in New York city's battle to kill mosquitoes after a rare outbreak of St. Louis Encephalitis that claimed three lives. Health
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Cabinet okays extension to population project
The Union cabinet has okayed the revised World Bank assisted India population project VIII, which aims to improve health and family welfare status of slum populations in the cities of Bangalore,
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132 autorickshaws seized for noise pollution
As many as 829 cases were booked against autorickshaw drivers, and 132 autorickshaws were seized by the transport department in the City during a special drive conducted last month to check noise
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IOC begins supply of 'green' diesel to Delhi
In a significant step towards checking pollution in Delhi, the Indian Oil Corporation has started supplying to the city ultra low sulphur diesel (ULSD) with a sulphur content of 0.05 per cent, which
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Coal worsening pollution levels in Chinese, Indian cities
Several cities, including Beijing and Delhi, are nearing pollution levels that London experienced during its famous 1952 "fog," which took 4,000 lives, and one of whose major causes was coal, says a
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Turks fear epidemics as quake toll reaches 10,000
Rescue workers fearing the spread of disease began setting up tent cities today for the tens of thousands left homeless by Turkey's massive quake, as another handful of survivors was discovered in
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35,000 still feared buried after quake
Turkey was facing even grimmer reality after the government revealed that up to 35,000 people may be buried under debris in the earthquake-hit industrial city of Kocaeli. With hopes of finding more
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Riversides to turn a new shade of green
Waterfronts around the world are in great demand. There is a conscious move to upgrade the city's profile by waterfront development. Yet they have the focus of controversy too. There may be a green
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Garbage burning made penal offence
Pakistan's Karachi city local bodies and utility services coordination board sub-committee decided on Saturday to initiate legal action against those found guilty of burning garbage. They took
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Employer cited for exposing workers to Methylene Chloride
OSHA cited P.O.P. Displays Inc., of Long Island City, NY and proposed penalties of $132,500 for 41 alleged serious and three alleged other-than-serious violations of OSHA standards. The company has
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Two million in fear as toll nears 7,000
Turkey ordered two million people in one of its cities to abandon their homes for fear of another earthquake as the death toll from Tuesday's tremor doubled yesterday to nearly 7,000. "Our citizens
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LCC plans to move Libala garbage site
Lusaka City Council (LCC) plans to move the Libala garbage dumping site to a different area because of the danger it poses to ground water. LCC spokesman Daniel M1soka yesterday disclosed that the
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Two teenage eclipse-gazers blinded
Two Egyptian teenagers in the port city of Alexandria lost their sight when they failed to heed warnings not to look directly at the sun during yesterday's eclipse. Througout the country, a total of
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Salman Khan appears in court
Film star Salman Khan today appeared in person for the first time before a city court in connection with the case relating to the shooting of black bucks and chinkaras, endangered wildlife. Six