The US chemical giant, Monsanto Co., has entered into its second bio-technology venture in Australian agriculture, signing a canola breeding agreement with the Victorian State Government.This follows

The government has given environmental clearance to Essar Oil to put up captive POL jetties at Kandla Port in Gujarat for its Rs 1,500 cr. 9 million tonnes per annum (MMPTA) oil refinery project

The Rs 2,275 cr. Kaiga nuclear power plant in Karnataka is expected to reach 'reactor cricicaliy' its first milestone- by June 1999. The construction of the second unit was almost over and, after

Three dykes have burst along the raging Nen in North-east China, threatening the country's largest oilfield of Daqing nearby, an anti-food official and state media said. About 200,000 soldiers and

A poor 20 per cent of the Indian project proposals for phasing out ozone-depleting chemicals (ODS) has been approved for financial support under the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund. Only 33 of

All major ports in the country may soon be issued guidelines for environmental safeguards in a bid to control marine pollution, a senior Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) official has

Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. (MCL), one of the beneficiary subsidiaries of Coal India Ltd. of the World Bank loan, has to take up an environment and social mitigation plan (ESMP) in right earnest for the

the World Bank has extended a line of credit amounting to $ 19.5 millions to the Government of India for a rural women's development and empowerment project, estimated to cost $53.8

Industries dump a staggering amount of 260 million litres of industrial wastes daily into the Ganga. The hundreds of industries along the river's 1,560-mile course discharge mostly untreated wastes.

Environmental activists from Greenpeace dumped two tonnes of genetically modified maize at Novartis AG's Basle headquarters and demanded the company pull gene-altered seeds from the market.But