To promote environmental awareness among school students in Delhi, the Worldwide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India) has introduced a new contest - the Spellathon Contest. According to WWF officials,

While Yanni was allowed to stage his controversial concert at Taj Mahal in March by the Supreme Court only after he promised to pay Rs 10 crore (which is still due to come), Zee TV secured the

The US and the European Union crossed swords over bananas again when Brussels asked for a World Trade Organisation panel to rule on section 301 of US trade law which provides for unilateral trade

The Osaka (Japan) municipal government is to make public details of polluted tracts of land it owns, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The government has been criticized for withholding details of

An association of waste-processing plants in Saitama Prefecture in Japan is to ask 72 member companies to voluntarily stop operating incinerators on Sundays, it was learned Wednesday. The request is

Residents of Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture (Japan), who suffer from pollution-related diseases reached a court-brokered settlement with nine companies in a suit that sought to establish the latter's

North Korea's population decreased by up to 3 million from 1995 to March 1998, mainly because of starvation, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported yesterday. "The North's population has decreased

Knysna Conservationists have appealed to South African Environment Affairs Minister Pallo Jordan to stop the proposed multi-million-rand development of historic Thesen Island here. The Western Cape

The West Bengal State Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board, a Karnataka Government undertaking, has awarded a Rs, 12-crore order to Subhas Projects and Marketing Ltd (SPML) a city-based engineering,

The Government has decided to use flyash in all its construction activities. The decision was taken at a tripartite meeting of the ministers of urban affairs, power and environment and forests. The