Noida is going to be the first polythene -free urban area in UP soon. The district administration has drafted a proposal to ban the use of polybags in the city. Violaters of the order, to be issued

Mathar, a small village in Budhni tehsil of Sehore district (Bhopal), has been selected for assessing possibilities of electrification through biomass gasifier-based power plant. The project report,

A flying squal attached to the anti-poaching unit of the State Forest Department's wild life wing recently raided a residence at Mecosabagh and seized a large quantity of antelope skin and antlers

Noise, air pollution by 2,80,000 truck trips, Army field firing are driving beasts to extinction in world's only sanctuary for species.The noise and air pollution the burgeoning salt industry has

A report says that 3,200 villages in Rajasthan - close to a tenth of the total and spread over all districts - have fluorosis. In fact, fluorosis is so familiar to Rajasthan that a strip near Makrana

India and Oman have reiterated their commitment to the Central India refinery project, a joint venture between the national oil companies of the two

The Indian and Bangladeshi Environment Ministers have decided to meet on the Indo-Bangladeshi border, deep in the slushy mangrove jungles of the Sunderbans sometime in the last week of March. The

The people of Assam, who were reeling under the onslaught of rain and floods that rendered about 20 lakh people homeless six months ago, are today appealing to the gods to send them rain. There has

Officials of the Forest Department's Territorial division posed in Buldhana, showed exceptionl interest in implementing the resolution. The scheme, in a major departure from the department's

Britain today summoned the US Ambassador in London for the second time in 24 hours to reprimand him about an escalating trade war over bananas. Ambassador Philip Lader sought to calm troubled