Assam is likely to witness yet another devastation by flood this year, because none of the breaches and cuts in the embankments have been plugged due to lack of funds. Flood control Department

Shell produced the worst results in its century long history yesterday , reporting a 95 per cent fall in net income, with its chairman admitting that his job is now on the line after the oil group

Experts : The few tigers remaining in the wild are in danger of extinction over the next decade unless governments make a concerted effort to legislate against the trade in products containing tiger

The Rajasthan Tourism Department has directed all its hotels, restaurants, and cafers on national highways to minimise the use of plastic bags, containers and other material which are not

India is home to 60 per cent of the world's recorded leprosy cases and the five states of Orissa, Bihar, UP West Bangal and Madhya Pradesh alone account for 63 per cent of the country's total

The G-15 summit opened today with leaders sharply attacking the International Monetary Fund for its bias against developing nations and demanded a decisive role for them in any negotiations for

The Union Minister for Power and Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Mr R Kumaramangalam, today emphasised that renewable sources would be the chief source of power in the next century. He was speaking

The Centre today lifted the ban on export of onion with immediate effect in view of the good crop in Maharashtra and Karnataka. The decision will help in arresting the decline in prices in the open

The next time you reach out for bottled "mineral water", check whether even the manufacturer is claiming it is such or not. For you may be buying water as good as that supplied by the municipal

The armed rebel groups are now backing organised rackets engaged in plunder of forests to share handsome dividents. Denudation of forest in Tripura's hill areas and smuggling of timber and animals to