The Kerala Government is keeping its options open on the entry of the controversial multinational Enron for the setting up of a 513 mw power project at

At least 15 Ashok trees were illegally felled at the official residence of former Congress MP Manik Rao Gavit on Monday while he was away to his constituency Nandovar, Maharashtra. The Forest

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will become the country's first municipal body to issue a bond of Rs 100 crore to part-finance its Rs 489 crore water and sewerage project. This is a unique move

With endangered Olive Ridley turtles mating in the sea off Gahirmatha coast and their mass nesting likely to begin soon, forest officials and coast guards have stepped up their drive against illegal

Dutch scientists have succeeded for the first time in proving the harmful effect of ultra-violet light on skin cells. Until recently all that scientists were able to do was to measure damage to

The herbal drugs industry has agreed to create a medicinal plants biodiversity conservation fund to provide financial back-up for initiatives aimed at sustainable availability, including farming of

Poachers are proving more chilling for felines in UP than the winter with a tigress being killed in the wildlife sanctuary of Katernighat in Bahraich district. This time it was not the poachers or

Over 900 fishermen's families from Ghivali village will stage a rasta-roko and dharna outside the Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS) in Tarapur, nearly 200 km from Mumbai on Monday. The fishermen

A senior health official warned on Saturday that action may be needed against geese, ducks and other birds if the recent mass slaughter of chickens fails to wipe out bird

Deadly poison from the skin of a frog in Ecuador has provided researchers a clue to a powerful new painkiller that may have all the benefits of morphine with none of its damaging side-effects. The