The lack of awareness about harmful effects of ozone can be detrimental, especially to the patients of asthma and other respiratory diseases. High ozone levels are harmful to the respiratory

The Chinese wild life authorities have invited a delegation of Indian officials next month in what appears to be a last ditch effort to save the Tibetan antelope, or Chiru, the source of

Heavy erosion along the banks of the Ganga have wiped out eight villages on a 5-km stretch between Gopalpur and Panchananda in Malda district's Manikchak Block. Hundreds of families have been

the Centre has amended the definition of 'new drug' to include syringes, transdermal patches, skin implants and other modern devices, to bring them under the control and supervision of the Drug

The Turkish authorities have started clearing the remains of buildings destroyed by last week's earthquake in an attempt to prevent an epidemic of cholera or typhus caused by an estimated 8,000

A red alert has been sounded at Manikchak point with the Ganga crossing the extreme danger level, the ADM said today. The immediate threat is to Kaliachak II, Manikchak and English Bazar.

The Delhi Government has decided to make Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital a super-speciality hospital. The new Health Minister of Delhi, Dr Ashok Walia, speaking to The Statesman, said this decision was

Far from being included into the country's family planning programme, the two injectable contraceptives for women, Net-en and Depo-Provera, should not be allowed in the country, women's groups and

It took less than eight months for unauthorised miners to turn a green land given to the Forest Department by the gram sabha of Rajokri village, in south-west Delhi, into a barren tract. About 70

The rural belt of the Capital is in the grip of severe drought. Crops in the 150-odd villages in the Capital have been ruined causing a loss of about Rs 35-crore to farmers. The bad monsoons have