Even though there are bright prospects of a bumper wheat crop in Uttar Pradesh, farmers' mood in the state is anything but buoyant. With the Food Corporation of India(FCI) yet to begin procurement of

Environmentalist-cum-poet Sugathakumari is in Delhi with a prayer for a river. Chaliyar river in north Kerala has become a dumping ground for effluents from Grasim Industries and over 200 villagers

Contaminated drinking water has left at least three persons dead and over 500 suffering from jaundice in Khanpur vilalge, Jhalwat district, during the last month. The disease is confined to Khanpur

The National Security Guard(NSG) Garrison at Manesar, 35 km from Gurgaon at Manesar trains the finest commandos in India, and is known for lending expertise to anti-terrorist and hostage-rescue

Ill-conceived irrigation flood channels are rapidly turning Haigam, Kashmir's premier wetland for avian tourists from Siberia, China and Europe, into a silt-laden basin that has eroded the rich

Five infants have died, 50 are in hospitals; child export racket tells story of not just greed but of a people caught in poverty

The recent judgment by the National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) holding that the tribal Van Gujjars living in the proposed Rajaji National Park in the Shivalik ranges of the Himalayan foothills

The health department of Gujarat has seized 19.2 lakh banned oxytocin injections which are unauthorisedly sold to cattle owners to raise milk

An alarming rise in cases of land subsidence in the Raniganj coal mine belt in Burdwan district of West Bengal has become a major cause of worry for geologists. In the last of such incident on

Safdarjung Hospital doctors have successfully operated on a 22-year-old woman suffering from the blue blood disease. The case is said to be rare because patients of the disease do not live more than