After the hue and cry following the cyclones earlier this year, a movement has been initiated in the Sunderbans in West Bengal to save the world's largest delta and its about 30 lakh

The window of opportunity for the control of AIDS is narrowing down and there could be a serious problem unless its rate of growth was effectively arrested in about three to four years, it was

A choking smog from burning Indonesian rainforests has built up in South-East Asia, reviving the nightmare of the environmental disaster of two years ago. Residents in Singapore woke up on Friday to

The Delhi High Court has asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to consider sympathetically the suggestions made in a public interest litigation with regard to introduction of 'pre-dawn

expert: Garlic is not only a wonderful way to add flavour to a meal but it can also improve blood cholesterol levels and reduce blood clot formation in narrowed arteries says, Dr. K.K. Aggarwal,

The Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security, an organisation of agricultural scientists, economists, policy makers, farmers and environmentalists, has called for an immediate moratorium on all

The world over "sacred groves" are a means of conserving forests and biodiversity. These are today threatened with rapid degradation and modernisation.Urgent measures are needed to restore these

It would have been a sure case of mercy killing for the ailing African lion but for frantic calls from across the country that forced the authorities to give one more try before taking the painful

The lone South Asian who has attracted world attention more than anybody else, particularly for his highly acclaimed micro-credit system through a bank called the Grameen Bank, is Prof. Mohammad

BSP MLA to deposit Rs 6 lakh fine: A Bahujan Samaj Party member of the Uttar Pradesh State Assembly, Mr Murad Lari, who first tried to fight it out politically, has decided ultimately to allow the