50 uprooted trees get a life, flyover work too carries on: About 50 trees, uprooted for building a fly-over, have been transplanted to near the Andrews Ganj crossroad. And the labourers, working at

After disposing of their old tractors and other implements, farmers in the Bathinda cotton belt have now started selling brand-new tractors at throwaway prices. As the cotton crop in the region has

As the Capital reels under a jaundice epidemic caused by contaminated water, a study shows that typhoid too is spreading in the city, affecting even children below the age of two. The findings of the

Prevalence rates for hypertension,diabetes, heart disease and cancer increase with the development of a village, while those for TB and leprosy decrase, making the last two diseases of deprivation

Japan announced Tuesday it had discovered dioxins in women's breast milk at levels so high that babies may be drinking 26 times the recommended daily maximum

The blistering heatwave that gripped much of the United States for the last two weeks has claimed at least 190 lives, President Bill Clinton said on Monday, announcing drought relief for farmers and

Memorial to be built at plant site: Fourteeen years after the world's biggest industrial disaster, Madhya Pradesh has mooted a plan to develop a Bhopal gas tragedy memorial. Sources said the

Under pressure from scientists, animal rights activist and minister Maneka Gandhi has backtracked on the issue of animal experimentation. Her ministry has decided to withdraw and amend some of the

Most Delhiites may not even know that Masudpur, a provider of popular bio-manure, exists just a km away from upmarket Vasant Kunj. But the 1.5 -acre plot with four huge black tanks and lots of

As a punishment to the World Wildlife Fund for publishing maps showing large parts of Jammu & Kashmir in Pakistan and of Arunachal Pradesh in China, the Government has scrapped its ambitious Tiger