The Indian Paper makers Association has offered to work jointly with the government to reforest the rapidly dwindling forest cover in the country.According to a statement released by the organisation

The UNDP has offered aid worth $13.75 million towards food security and environment support to India. The two new grant agreements were signed by Dr Brenda Hael McSweeny, the new UNDP representative

People who deliberately transmit the HIV virus that causes AIDS could face life imprisonment in Britain if Parliament adopts proposed changes to a 19-th century law made public on

Tinkerbell, Duchess and Kaman are in a scientific programme testing camel DNA and investigating artificial insemination techniques that could eventually lead to more births. The programme is part of

British Opposition parties on Tuesday failed to overturn the controversial ban on the sale of beef , ordered in December as a safety precaution against the spread of mad cow disease. The House of

The population of New Zealand rose by one per cent in 1997 to an estimated 3.78 million, Statistics New Zealand said on

A vaccine against E. Coli, the deadly food poisoning bacteria that forced the recall last year of millions of pounds of US beef, has been tested successfully on a small group of volunteers,

Forty tonnes of crude oil spilled after a railway train cistern turned over in an accident in Georgia that risks contaminating water supplies officials said on

The British government is considering whether to bring in a law which could impose life sentences on those found guilty of deliberately passing on

A pack of 48 stump-tailed monkeys long thought to be extinct in Malaysia has been spotted near the Malaysian-thai border recently, a newspaper reported on