Turks blame govt : The full horror of the Turkish earthquake began to emerge yesterday as the death toll reached 6,300 and the blaze at the Tupras refinery threatened to engulf the town of Izmit.

Six more cases of dengue have been reported from the Capital in the past week, taking the total number of people affected by the disease to 15. Thus , 13 cases have been detected in September, said

More than a decade after the Ganga Action Paln was launched, the government will ask the people for money to clean up the holy river. The decision to set up the multicrore Ganga Trust Fund taken by

People with inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease, are being treated with doses of paasitic worms with promising results. Researcher claim the worms naturally damp down the body's

The Delhi High Court asked the Delhi Government whether it proposed to take up a fresh bill to check quackery before the Delhi Assembly, since the earlier one - the Delhi Quackery Prohibition Bill,

At least 1,100 people were killed and many more trapped in crumbled apartment blocks as an earthquake rocked western Turkey today. Turkish seismologists registered the quake, which was followed by

Imagine buying bottled dirt, pesticides, industrial solvents, mercury, bacteria and other micro-organisms disguised as potable mineral water. And acquiring symptoms of indigestion, cancer, piles,

The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has issued a notification banning the use of plastic bags for carrying foodstuff, the Delhi High Court was informed. The ministry futher said certain

The Chairman of the Standing Committee in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Mr. Shanti Desai, stated that no mid-day meal had been served for the past three months in any of the schools run by the

The World Bank's report labelling the Delhi Development Authority as one of the most corrupt organisation in the country seems to have stirred an hornet's nest. A union of DDA has even threatened to