Local administration and law enforcing agencies started drives against fishing in open water sources from Thursday to execute an 11-day fishing ban to facilitate safe spawning of Hilsa fish.

World food prices fell 2 per cent in September, reflecting higher grain supplies and weakened demand, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday, easing inflation concerns ahead of an expecte

Massive floods have ravaged vast swathes of Asia’s rice bowl, threatening to further drive up food prices and adding to the burden of farmers who are among the region’s poorest, experts say.

A study using the Herschel space telescope aimed to measure the fraction of deuterium, a rare type of hydrogen, present in the comet’s water.

Sundarban, the world’s largest mangrove forest, has become unsafe for many animals especially for tigers, deer and crocodiles due to rampant and indiscriminate animal poaching in the last few years

The parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology on Sunday approved the Science and Technology Development Trust Bill 2011 after making t

India has improved procedures to deal with a nuclear emergency in the wake of the Fukushima crisis in Japan, the country’s atomic energy watchdog said Thursday, after criticism of its preparedness.

Erosion by the River Bangali that took a serious turn rendered over 300 families homeless at Shariakandi upazila in Bogra in the last week.

The waters around India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are home to the world’s most endangered sea turtles, according to a study released Thursday aimed at setting a blueprint for global conservation.

At least four people were killed when a mudslide swept away houses in a village in northern Thailand, raising the death toll from two months of flooding to 173, the government said Wednesday.