An NGO, Shramjeevi Sangathana, has nailed the lie of the Maharashtra Government that there have been no bonded labourers in the State since 1992. The Sangathana recently rescued a group of labourers

One of the world's most remote ghost towns, buried under ice and snow in the Antarctic, is to be cleaned up after almost 30 years, the Australian government said on

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has recommended the closure of the Delhi government's ambitious poultry project because of huge

Continuing its crack-down on land-grabbers, the State Forest department has booked some more politicians of Chikmagalur district on the charge of encraoching on forest land in the Western Ghats

When a legislator asked during a half-an-hour discussion in the Maharashtra Assembly if you could get AIDS from mosquito bites, Health Minister Daulatrao Aher, a doctor, was appalled.So was the Chief

A dense pall of gloom engulfed large parts of the capital yet again today. The cause was a cocktail of dust and smoke from vehicular pollution, and flyash from the Indraprastha Thermal Power Station

A special report on lost empire that 300 labourers and a six-member team of archaeologists have made it their mission to rediscover. After seven long years of hope and sweat they have stumbled on to

The growing incidents of animal poaching by electrocution at the Pench National Park, 116 km off Nagpur in Maharashtra, have left wildlife activists worried. The latest in the series of deaths - that

Earlier this month, women at risk of developing breast cancer received a limited reason for hope: A drug called tamoxifen was found effective at preventing breast cancer, but it is associated with

In a surprise move, the Mukerji Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MEF) has recommended that forest land be given to industry for plantations. This comes as a welcome relief to the