The acid ponds yellow acid fumes, black slush and putrid odour are overpowering across a stretch of about 5 km in the Wazirpur industrial area. The 'hell' is the contribution of nearly 1,000 steel

More than 50,000 sea turtles have been found dead on the Orissa coast in the past two years. This was revealed by a video survey conducted by Project Swarajya, a non-governmental organisation, during

Noted social worker and winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Anna Hazare was today sentenced to a three-month simple imprisonment by the Metropolitan Court at Girgaum in connection with a defamation

The prevalence of HIV positive cases in the blood being collected from voluntary donors by 27 government and private blood banks in the Capital, has increased over the last two years, reveals a

On paper, DDA and MCD have been planting over ten lakh saplings a year in Delhi, in the last decade. But the absence of a monitoring mechanism , these rarely get to become trees : a

AIDS has established its roots in western Madhya Pradesh at an alarming rate. According to official sources, of the 208 AIDS patients identified in the state till March this year, 144 belonged to

The Rs 541-crore Cipla has introduced its indigenously developed anti-AIDS drug, lamivudine, in both the domestic and overseas market at less than half the prevailing global prices. Cipla's early

E is for energy label : The Government is planning the introduction of an 'E-Mark' to signify energy efficiency as part of change being planned in the Energy Conservation Bill. This bill is the last

The forest department has pulled up a senior member of the prominent Mumbai-based Bombay Environmental Action Group (BEAG), Colonel Mohite, for allowing illegal felling of trees in the

Unsustainable and unethical fishing practices have finally taken their toll. A recently concluded workshop on the Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) for Indian fresh water species has