Uprooted fruit trees and flattened grapevines littered swaths of freshly bulldozed land on Tuesday in this Palestinian village, where the Israeli army has begun clearing the way for a road linking a

The Australian Green activist, Mr. Ian Kiernan, has been awarded the prestigious Sarakawa Environment Prize for 1998 by the United Nations for his contribution to the worldwide campaign for a clean

A four-day international workshop focussing attention on young people as vital players in fighting AIDS began here today, with stress on the fact that of the four million people in India infected by

A cyclonic storm of "very severe intentsity" accompanied by heavy rain and gale, crossed the North Andhra Pradesh coast near Visakhapatnam on Sunday evening causing damage to crops, dislocating

Japanese expert: Wild silk may not be popular in the world, but it has medicinal value. According to the International Society for Wild Silk Moth (ISWSM) President, Prof. Hiromu Akai, recent research

India has decided not to use the Russian made oral polio vaccine (OPV) for its polio eradication programme, a sudden move that is likely to cause a setback to the 11 year-old science cooperation

Even as the eruptions from the AIDS-volcano in Manipur engulf more and more people, the State has devised a new policy which will primarily attempt to check the spread of HIV infection through

Women living within three kilometres of hazardous waste landfills are at a greater risk of giving birth to children with defects, a study by a team of European researchers has

Two laden Chinese oil tankers have collided off southern Guangdong province leaking oil into the sea and threatening the endangered white Dolphin, the official China Daily reported on Saturday. An

The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, today sought the help of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in providing nutritional diet to children and asserted that access to such food was the