The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has detected a number of irregularities in the implementation of the compensatory afforestation scheme in Madhya Pradesh. The report has cited

A white paper on industrial pollution in Delhi, prepared in January this year, states that most of the projects undertaken by the state government to contain pollution are nowhere near completion.

What was once a wetland for migratory birds is now an underground water storage tank. Where once there was dense undergrowth, there's scorched earth. Bulldozers have ripped through the floor of the

Bangladesh has commissioned a 103-million-dollar floating power station, the first in South Asia, to help meet its growing electricity

A memorandum on a need for a governmental ban on all forms of tobacco advertisements, including sport sponsorship was presented to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today.The memorandum signed by

One of the main reasons for brain haemorrhage is aneurysm or a blister in the brain, which goes largely undetected and if detected is seen as incurable. The only way of removing it was surgery where

The residents of 1,071 unauthorised colonies dotting Delhi have been provided Rs 46 crore for the current year to improve sanitation and sewerage in these colonies. The task of providing water and

India is poised to achieve self-reliance in cartography-the science of mapping-in the year 2000 when the CARTOSAT-I satellite will be launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) from

The tiger population in Orissa's forests is fast declining, according to data provided by the State's forest department. The tiger population in the 32 forest divisions of the State came down to 198

A Russian rocket carrying 12 US satelllites plunged to earth after an unexplained failure of one its engines, the press department of the Russian space agency said