Green activists : Nature lovers and senior forest officials have experessed serious concern over the Government's decision to open Kerala's wildlife sanctuaries to eco-tourism. The decision was

The United Nations system is to develop and target a nutrition profile for India. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN has just received approval from headquarters to conduct a pilot

In a major change in strategy, the newly formed Power Trading Corporation (PTC) has decided to short-list all 13 applicants who had applied for the Requests for Qualification (RFQ) for setting up the

Rarely do breakthroughs happen in the dingy laboratories of Delhi University (DU). But four scientists worked round-the-clock in a two-room DU laboratory with meagre resources and borrowed equipment

India's best known bird sanctuary, the Keoladeo National Park at Bharatpur, faces an uncertain future. The conflict between the need to protect bio-diversity and the demands of the local communities

Prmopted by the afforestation done by the Haryana forest department in the Aravalli ranges, the Delhi government has urged the Haryana government to extend expertise and knowhow for preparing a

The tribesmen and Dalits living in the thick reserve forest of Thamaravellachal, near the Peechi Reservoir in Thrissur, have challenged Forest Department officials by taking law into their hands. In

A recent census shows that the Crocodile Research Centre at Dangamal in the Bhitarkanika sanctuary has, through years of systematic conservation work, put paid to fears that the saltwater crocodile

Environment minister Maneka Gandhi's new guidelines for animal experiments, which came out a few months ago, have thrown city laboratries of Pune in panic. They are looking for agencies to take care

The hoarding screams 'Cherish a Memory, Plant a tree'. But go beyond the billboard and you come face to face with 572 trees standing in two feet deep sullage covered in algae and full of snakes. As