About a year ago, about 80 people encrached upon Gupni forest land under forest village Gopisur and started felling trees with a view to make the land fertile for cultivation. Recently, again they

Gujarat has been chosen by a US agency for an international public health project worth $1 million.The project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), aims at

Arsenic contamination has curbed access to safe drinking water in Bangladesh, once praised for providing potable water to most of its people, experts said. "The presence of arsenic in excess of the

The most magnificent members of the cat family, tigers and panthers have increased in the past two years in Madhya Pradesh. An increase of 5 tigers and 100 panthers in the state in the two years has

AERB : Radiation exposure to over 10,000 workers at Indian nuclear power plants is well within limits prescribed by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). But the board wants the doses to be as

For developing the agriculture of newly carved state of Chhattisgarh, the social organisation of agricultural scientists Agrocrat's Society for Rural Development (ASORD) has prepared a draft policy

Geo-scientists have still not been able to calculate the exact amount of energy released during the earthquake that rocked the entire Mahakaushal region last month but assumed it should equal energy

A case of illegal mining of stones in villages of Gutra Pahari, Basantpur, Pholidumar has come to light with the initiative of the Forest Department. This illegal mining has caused lakh of rupees

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