After filmstar Salman Khan, it was the turn of the authorities. An overdoze of tranquillizers, negligence and lack of proper vetrinary care led to the death of a blackbuck which was seized from

No respite is in sight for village downstream of river Krishna as heavy rains continue to lash Andhra Pradesh and fill up reservoirs. Already 60,000 people in Krishna, Guntur and Nalgonda districts

Film star Salman Khan was today released on bail in a case of hunting in the Guda Vishnoiyon region of Jodhpur only to be arrested immediately afterwards over the killings of two chinkaras in

A sub-committee comprising bureaucrats and scientists has been constituted to examine on Friday the draft rules relating to breeding and experiments on animals. The draft rules had been released last

The level of lead in the Capital's atmosphere has come down by 65 per cent after the introduction of unleaded petrol from September 1, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The

AIDS is spreading at an alarming rate in Calcutta and by 1999 there may be a staggering 49,000 people infected by the virus in the eastern metropolis. This alarming projection has been made by a team

Introduction of new regulations on animal experimentation has brought work at the National Centre for Laboratory Animal Sciences (NCLS) in Hyderabad, the country's largest supplier of research

Study : Dwindling forest cover and ineffective implementation of forest laws in Orissa will soon put human life at stake, warns a survey conducted by the Wildlife Society of Orissa. In the last two

World Bank plans to set up a 'knowledge hub' in environment sector to facilitate information exchange among its stake-holders and also between institutions of industrial and developing world. Much of

Kerala will have fewer and fewer children going by recent trends in fertility and mortality rates. With many schools here already short of students, a worse situation should be expected, warn