Making best out of waste is what the Surat Municipal Corporaton has decided, thereby providing water to the demands long pending with it. Two major demand of water, one from the Sachin Industrial

A draft national blood policy finalised by the National Blood Transfusion Council has been submitted to the government for approval. The policy measures finalised last week by the council headed by

Forty-eight beagles are adjusting happily to new homes and the thrill of freedom. But the dogs and a clutch of animal lovers may be the only few who are satisfied with the result of the move to

The financial aspects of the Rs 4,628-crore Hinduja National Power Project is likely to be finalised withing the next four months, and work on the 1,040 MW thermal power plant at Parwada near

After strong protests from India, the European Union has finally admitted that there is no reliable scientific method for testing the aroma for Basmati rice. Over the last one year, under the

Seven companies are in the race for setting up two projects near Chennai to generate power from municipal solid waste. The state-owned Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) intends

A fledgling Belgiam company which breeds predator bugs to kill pests has opened up a potentially huge and largely untapped market for environmentally friendly pesticides. In 10 years the firm,

After the green bench of the Madras High Court refused to extend time limit beyond May 11 for the dyeing and bleaching units to complete the common and individual effluent treatment plants in Tirupur

The neem trees is being threatened by the Die-Bach fungal disease in Karnataka. According to a field survey conducted over the last four years by a group of researchers from the University of Mysore,

In what is stated to be the first of its kind of occurence in India, an Emu (the bird) farm in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh has hatched its first chick. The commerical farm, operated by