The agriculture ministry is preparing a contingency plan to prevent food shortage----------

For the first time in 30 years, India stares at the probability of a drought, which threatens to worsen the already precarious food demand-supply balance and plunge the country into a deeper food security crisis.

Ever wondered what happens to all the waste you generate and where it goes after it is mindlessly dumped? Reports indicate that a good 99 per cent of people have never bothered or even know what happens thereafter. The responsibility of collection of waste obviously has to rest with the municipal board of the city.

Coal, is a primary source of energy in India and plays a critical role in economic development and growth of the country. About 55% of primary commercial energy and 70% of power generation in India are coal based. Demand of coal by 2031-32 is expected to be over 2 billion tonnes per annum, as against current consumption of around 500 million tonnes.

Go green seems to be the new mantra in Bengal. At a time when leading power groups like Ennore Coke Limited is moving ahead with amazing speed in the power sector, it's time to take stock of the environmental milestones achieved by the group.

Good news from the AIDS research front. Researchers at the Children

On 22 May 2008, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speaking on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, said,

Manmohan Singh By the time you read this, some of the jostling for the key positions in the Cabinet will be over. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will be ready to begin its second innings. And everyone will be keenly watching if Manmohan Singh unveils any big bang steps to

As the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen scheduled in December approaches, the debate over responsibility for the danger we have created is heating up. The industrialised world is urging developing nations such as China and India to accept limits on carbon-dioxide emission as a pre-condition for their own emissions-reduction plan.

Herbal products could soon be prescribed by allopathic doctors (ABP) During a recent visit to the US, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh delivered an eloquent speech to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials on the medicinal properties of Indian Ayurvedic herbs. One official asked him:

Of all the potential global disasters that we periodically list and examine, only one has threatened repeatedly to become a reality: the flu, a variety of which is now spreading quickly across the world. A global flu epidemic seems a feeble threat compared to an asteroid impact or a nuclear holocaust, which nobody has encountered.