In a significant decision, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has divested two of the proposed functions of the Water Board - sewage system and distribution of water - which was, till yesterday,

A self-taught inventor's dreams of joining the space race came sharply down to earth on Friday when his pound 70,000 hand-built rocket crashed, setting fire to several hundred acres of Dartmoor (UK).

Undercover agents have stumbled across a number of stores, in Manhattan selling bidis-handrolled Indian cigarettes - in a drive by the city administration against those selling tobacco products to

A new chapter was written in the history of wildlife at Lanka's Uduwalawe National Park yesterday when an "artifical herd" of elephants was accepted by a natural herd almost an hour after it was

Cases of fresh HIV infections have declined in Manipur following awareness campaign against intravenous drug users but deaths caused by AIDS are on the

Sewage disposal is a major problem for both developed and developing countries like India. Scientists have evolved various methods for tackling this problem, a

Either the National Mineral Development Corporation, or the Mumbai-based cartel of diamond merchants, Vishal Diamonds, would set up a joint venture company with the Madhya Pradesh State Mining

For the past two decades, water from a million or more wells sunk into the alluvium of the Ganges delta by agencies such as Unicef, the World Bank and Britain's Overseas Development Administration,

The Government of India has decided to set up an institute to act as the technical focal point for conducting state of the art research and development in renewable energy and development

The urbanisation prevalent in the 20th century has brought in its wake an alarming, inevitable and persistent problem of slums. This massive and vital problem which is affecting every citizen was the