Residents of Sector 28 at Vashi say that an obnoxious smell and fear of a toxic gas leak have been forcing them to shut their windows and doors at night for the past several weeks. They also complain

The farm sector is likely to be the biggest stubling block in the new round of multilateral trade negotiations under the World Trade Organisation(WTO). A WTO check list highlights the conflicting

Sikkim s Pawan Kumar Chamling is felicitated for being the greenest chief minister of India

Horseshoe crabs, survivors from the Paleozoic Era, now face the threat of extinction

Development Programme (UNDP) will provide assistance worth US $2.55 million to India for large-scale adoption of high-yielding hybrid rice technology. The initiative is part of the Food Security

The Bombay High Court's Panaji bench has stayed the construction of a Rs 25-crore five-star hotel project on the Nagorcem-Palolem beach in south Goa. It is one of the many hotels in Goa that has been

More than 28 species of rhododendron flower to be found in the Milke area od Tehrathum, Sankhuasabha and Taplejung districts of Nepal are not being properly protected. People's representives,

Ombudsman Punjab (Pakistan) Justice Manzoor Hussain Sial has taken notice of public grievance about environmental hazards due to presence of a hoisery factory in residential area of Gulberg. The

Scientists probing the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy told a court that Union Carbide had not kept the tank from which gas had leaked under nitrogen pressure from more than a month. Methyl isocyanate (MIC)

Gujarat High Court has taken suo moto cognizance of the gas leak that caused panic in Ahmedabad city on Monday night and issued notices to the state government, Gujarat Pollution Control Board,