The financial turmoil enveloping Southeast Asia will severely limit Indonesia's ability to fight fires raging through part of the archipelago, the country's Environment Minister Sarwono Kusumaatmadja

The commercial trade in human body parts is no longer confined to the poorer developing countries, it seems - eastern and central Europe is now becoming a source of cheap human kidneys and other

For the first time, nine Indian school children shall participate in the Fifth Children's Summit to be held at Disneyland Paris in France in May next. A spokesperson of the United Nations

An inter-ministerial technical committee has been formed by the Government to work out details and modalities of tackling the issue of patent given by the US for basmati rice on priority basis. "The

The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Indian (Assocham) on Thursday favoured taking the basmati patent controversy to the dispute settling mechanism of the

two to three glasses of wine a day reduces death rates from all causes by up to 30 per cent."I've always suspected this," said Serge Renaud, whose findings appeared on Wednesday in the journal

The Government on Saturday signed two agreements with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a $13.75 million grant on food security and environment support. The agreements, which would

An unlikely environmentalist, the Indian Paper Makers Association (Ipma), has offered to reforest 2 million hectares of degraded forestlands. Responding to the latest official figures which show

WHO : Many patients infected with TB are gradually returning to Government hospitals following disillusionment with the private-run medical services, says a WHO in a recent report.About 70 percent of

India's forest cover officially pegged at 23 per cent is actually "national" as it includes rocky out-crop and scrub which supports a certain variety of wildlife.The biennial State Forest Report