With the severe winter coming to an abrupt end, tourists have already started arriving at this popular hill resort, making it difficult for hotels to function properly without a regular supply of

The Supreme Court has directed all State Pollution Control Boards to set up environmental surveillance squads to conduct surprise checks on industries to find out whether they were polluting the

Members in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday drew the attention of the Government to the plight of workers following closure of sago unts and dyeing and bleaching units and urged the State

Villagers long exposed to dust and sulphur dioxide emitted by the Mae Moh ignite-fired power plant have united to set up an environmental protection association to push for their relocation and

The World Bank will continue to support erosion control on the Loess Plateau, described as the world's worst-eroded region. A seven-member World Bank delegation, headed by Guergen Voegele, has

The emirate of Dubai is putting up a prize of $1-million (about R6-million) for the best environmental scheme, to be awarded in 2001. Organisers said anyone can submit a project which has "to serve

The pre-Budget Economic Survey, 1998-99, to be tabled in both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, has for the first time given due recognition to environment and forests as an economic sector.

The row over the Birla-owned Gwalior Rayons Ltd at Mavoor in Kerala has intensified, with environmentalists and cultural leaders seeking the closure of the unit and the Communist-led Govenemnt and

The Madras High Court today permitted Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd. (SIIL) to operate until further orders its copper smelting plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu.The plant which was closed on

North Korea is increasingly turning to public executions to try to curb a rampant crime wave-ranging from murder and cannibalism to smuggling and robbery-by people desperate for food, according to