The landscape looks desolate with tree stumps jutting out of lush green grass for ove a kilometre near Nainital - as if a ginat scythe had cut a wide swathe through the area. Just when the tourist

Oil and natural gas were struck at two wells in the Krishna-Godavari basin by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh

Katkari tribls who have been tilling the land for more than 20 years, are being pushed back to denuded forests. These events occurred only about six months ago, due to the forces of "development"

The army has been accused of carrying out illegal construction and felling of trees in a section of the Ridge assigned to it fr conducting exercises.Addressing a press conference called by Citizens

AIDS is now the leading killer disease in Africa which is also the continent where malaria is most prevalent, according to UN agencies engaged in combating

Alang and other places along the coast are buzzing with rumours of a killer cyclone that is to hit the Saurashtra coast by June 15. Reports in the Press about the cyclone have fanned the

By 2030, tobacco will kill 10 million people a year and the toll will be higher than the total number of deaths due to malaria, maternal and child conditions and tuberculosis, the World Health

The cash-strapped Kalyan Singh Governemnt today heaved a sigh of relief when a World Bank team, on a visit in Lucknow, agreed to provide an assistance of Rs 15,000 crore till March 2000.For the

For the first time, a group of mountaineers will carry out a pollution check drive when they embark on an expedition to Mt Everest in March, next year.The aim of the expedition is to spread awareness

Smallpox though declared to have been eradicated completely 20 years ago, is still a "threat" against which the world today is "unprotected" and "unprepared", British medical journal The Lancet said