One of the greenest belts around Bhubaneswar, the famous Chandaka Dampara wildlife sanctuary may soon degenerate into the wasteland it was in the early 80s. The government apathy to its maintenance

India, the second largest recipient of the GEF aid, is also, rather interestingly, a donor to it. While GEF projects in India are worth $150 million

A deadly flu epidemic which may hit Australia in July could kill up to 2,700 people, Health Minister Michael Wooldridge said on

In a significant development, Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF)chief representative in India Yoshitaro Fuwa said in "practical terms" the organisation and the GEF will find it difficult to

The Supreme Court will pass orders on a Government proposal to appoint former Chief Justice of India A M Ahmadi to head a new trust to oversee the building of a hospital at Bhopal for the gas leak

A senior Clinton Administration official has stated that India's envisaged challenge of a U.S. patent given to an American company for basmati rice would be an exercise in

More environmentalists feel that a sanctuary or forest area should not be used for releasing domesticated animals. Reacting to the green signal by the Delhi Government for the bear sanctuary project

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to apprise it of the proposed measures to check cruelty against animals lodged in mobile zoos across the

The Delhi Government has given the go-ahead to the project for rehabilitation of dancing bears in the Asola Bhatti forest without going into the technical or financial

In what could bring about a paradigm shift in the concept of protecting the fragile eco-system of the country, the Delhi chapter of the UNESCO has endorsed a proposal to initiate