The Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udhyog Sangathan, the largest organisation of survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster, has accused the Madhya Pradesh government of safeguarding the interests of the

The Supreme Court today fixed 18 August for the final hearing of appeals of the Karnataka Government and others challenging the judgement of the High Court issuing direction to the state

The Asian Development Bank is likely to extend a $400 million loan to the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India for undertaking various energy efficiency improving programmes, a

Shell and Mobil have pulled out of a vast project to pipe gas from the Amazon jungles to the coast of Peru. The oil companies walked away from signing an agareement with the government after

In a recent path-breaking report by the Unites National Children's Educational Fund, about 25-30 percent of women in developed countries are dying due to smoking-related diseases. On the other hand,

The Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha has directed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment & Forests to visit the last remaining habitat of the Asiatic lions in the Gir forests, and then

The much delayed Hospital Waste management Rules are on their way to becoming a law soon, but confusion still prevails among those who have to adopt the same. The notification for the Biomedical

The sprawling Horticulture and Forestry University at Solan is witnessing an alarming growth in poaching of certain endangered animals and birds. This is happening under the nose of a fully equipped

The followers of the legendary Gauri Devi, who championed the cause of the magnificent Deodars in the higher reaches of Garhwal and triggered off the Chipko Movement in the seventies, have entered

As Indian grapples with the AIDs menace, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has given a nod to the National AIDs Control Organisation to conduct clinical trials on the efficacy of AZT therapy