At least 35 people have died in southern US states from devastating tornados that sliced a wide swath of destruction through Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, officials said on

Even as the US and many Asian countries including India are engaged in a bruising trade battle over import ban of shrimps on environmental grounds, a small, coastal voluntary organisation in Orissa

By the year 2011, the Capital's population will cross the two crore mark and it will not be a mega city but a monster city. Speaking at a seminar on 'Civic Administration in the 21st Century: The

Eight thousand lavatories constructed by the Zilla Parishad (ZP) in 11 talukas of Solapur by spending over Rs 2 crore under the Govenment's community based schemes are "missing".Interestingly, no

The misuse of funds meant for poverty alleviation programmes caused starvation deaths in Kalahandi, Bolangir and Koraput districts of Orissa, according to a Parliamentary Committee

The Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested three persons and booked 12 others, including some senior forest officials, accusing them of irregularities of over Rs 35 lakh in the Gorewada-Ambazari

The Brihanumumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to ask the State Government to ban plastic bags, especially for day-to-day use, in

The country's leading power generating company NTPC announced today that it was planning to enter into hydel power generation and also in non-conventional energy sector, including

The massive international eco jamboree ended in the Capital today without clarifying its fancy nomenclature which has prevented nations for executing projects to save the global environment. At the

Tirupur's days as famous hosiery town might be over. So might be the days of over 2.5 lakh persons, most of whom are migrants from districts farther south, in Tirupur. The verdict of the Green Bench