The Madhya Pradesh government has announced 76 tehsils of 22 districts as drought affected and released Rs 7.30 crore for employment oriented relief measures. The decision was taken in a meeting of

Protesting against the World Bank-aided forestry project in Madhya Pradesh a large number of tribals took out a rally and held a demonstration in the state capital on Tuesday. The demonstrators

An expert committee constituted by the Centre has identified Bhopal as one of the high risk areas for malaria. The committee has also identified 14 other towns, categorized under high risk

At least four coastal Orissa districts, devastated by the October Super Cyclone, are suffering from severe malnutrition problems. A recent survey jointly conducted by the State Government , care

The People's Organisations have been running a combined agitation against the Madhya Pradesh Forestry Project. Alleging that the World Bank and the State Government both had ignored the year 1999

Madhya Pradesh health minister Subhash Kumar Sojatia announced in the State Assembly that a high-level committee, headed by the principal secretary, health would visit the malaria and encephalitis

The State Government claims to have implemented a numberof policy decisions for greater participationof rural populace in forestry development activities through joint forest management (JFM). In

The Punjab Government has drawn an ambitious plan to set up 500 solar tubewells at highly subsidised costs for farmers in the

A new super-greenhouse gas has been discovered in the atmosphere, say a team of US and European scientists. The news of the gas --- called SF5CF3, or trifluoromethylsulphur pentafluoride-- was first

Even as the Madhya Pradesh government enthusiastically prepares for the shifting of Gir lions to its soil later this year, the Gujarat government is reportedly not too keen to send its carnivores to