Aided by superstition, monkey tamers find a barbaric way of making money. In a country that revers its simians as avatars of monkey god Hanuman, the animal is being subjected to remorseless savagery

A new study "District-level Deprivation in the New Millennium" on India's most backward district unveils a shocking litany of poverty, hunger and deprivation that continues to drag India

Ecologists come up with simple measures to stop the massacre of 15,000 sea turtles every year in Orissa. But will they be implemented? Last year, the death toll along the Orissa coast the largest

India's only scientifically managed wildlife rehabilitation and re-introduction project, based in Assam, has successfully released 67 animals back into the wild in its first year of operation.

It is an ambitious project with the best names in the business to take technology to rural areas. Media Lab Asia is a research laboratory backed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with

Discovery of gas off the Andhra Pradesh coast at the Krishna-Godavari basin will enhance India's energy security and enrich Reliance

Under Shri Pawan Chamling government, Sikkim has progressed and made indelible marks in many areas of governance. The Government's overall objective is to make the state prosperous without comprising

A $10 million cleanliness initiative is in a limbo as critics call it a platform for multinationals. At the centre of the bubbling controversy in Kerala is the ambitious Washing Hands project jointly

There seems to be more hype than truth in the reports of hunger related deaths in Orissa. Undoubtedly, Pidikaka's death on August 29 in Gajakupalli village of Rayagada district of Orissa was shocking

Women who are big on beauty products are in for a shock. A recent study released by two US based organisations the Environmental Working Group Coming Clean and Health Care without Harm says many