The BJP manifesto, released at Bhopal today, promoses to give ownership rights on forest land to those trinbals who had been living on such land prior to 1980 . It also promises to convert all

The ministers of finance, power, coal and defence will meet at New Delhi within 10 days to resolve the coal mining issue of the fast track $14 billion Bhadravati power project in Maharashtra.

The Rs 6,400 crore joint venture Bharat Oman Refinery Project in Madhya pradesh has been given environmental clearance, thanks to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's intervention. The Oman Oil

Duggal : The Municipal Commissioner, Mr V K Duggal, today claimed that recent reports of dengue deaths were "conclusively brought on record " and there was no cause for panic among the general

With 22 fresh cases of dengue being reported in the Capital in past 24 hours, the epidemic which tool over 400 lives in 1996 is raising its head once again. So far, seven people have died due to

The Andhra Pradesh Government finds itself pitted against a small village which is holding out against its ambitious plans to locate the country's first international business school in the area. It

The Kokrajhar district administration has suggested dereservation of certain reserve forests to enable resettling of relief camp inmates there. There are reserved forests which hardly have trees left

Planeloads of food, medical personnel, sniffer dogs and even demining teams have arrived in Central America as the international community pledged $115 million to help victims of this region's worst

Scientists and engineers from various parts of the world will meet in the Doon Valley at an International Sumposium to be held at the Indian Institute of Petroleum on the subject of catalysis. The

A two-day conference and workship on infertility, endoscopy and colour doppler, will be held at Allahabad from 14 November. The conference, organised by the Indian Association of Human Reproduction