Rajasthan proposed to achieve 'cent per cent rural electrification by the year 2000. The programme will be taken up in a phased manner by the Rajasthan State Electricity Board (RSEB) starting with

TN worried over Central delay: The Tamil Nadu Government is extremely apprehensive that a delay on the part of the Union Minitry of Surface Transport (MoST) may jeopardise its largest and most

Argentina manages its garbage well, while India is doing nothing about the mounting collection of solid wastes that the turning its cities into dumping grounds of skyscraper proportions. But then,

A calamity relif authority will be set up in Karnataka soon to extend speedy relief to those affected by natural calamities, the Revenue Minister, Mr. B. Somashekar, said today. the funds required by

The greening of Ladakh is having some unusual results on the environment there. Mosquitoes and flies have now entered areas they would not have dared to access 10 years ago. Mosquitoes and flies are

India's population, which is 975.8 million at present, will reach the billion mark early in the new century and, growing at the rate of 1.6 per cent, will rise to 1.38 billion in 2025, according to

'Nishant' the pilotless training aircraft(PTA) developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), was successfully flown from the Interim Test range (ITR) at Chandipur near

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has crossed 30 per cent of the target of planting 6.5 lakh saplings in various areas of the capital, under the Green Delhi campaign, the Mayor, Mr. Dhayan Chand

On an average 105 female infants were killed every month in Dharmapuri district throughout 1997. This was desptie the tall claims of successive state governments and the many schemes launched to

Nature lovers got together in Jaipur the other day to give a serious thought on how to market conservation. Without getting into the usual debate of how desirable it is to promote tourism in wildlife