UN : Another gloomy year has been predicted for the suffering countries as 1998's natural and man-made disasters would continue into the next year with more people facing food shortages,

A two-day national seminar on industrial gases will be held in Bangalore from January 29 to discuss systematic realignment of the units following the conclusion of the first phase of liberalisation.

An eco-friendly method of converting the pollution causing marble dust into tiles and other building materials has been demonstrated on an experimental scale by various Indian research

Heavy monsoon rains have forced over 2,000 people to evaculate and dozens of schools to close after submerging some areas under nearly 2.4 metres of water, news reports said on

The 'clear' water that flows in river Bagmati at Jorpati in Nepal is not as clear as it looks. A group of 22 students from Nepal and Japan who carried on the spot test found that the seemingly clear

Management of Dhaka's rubbish was hardly ever remarkable. Although an army of 5,000 employees of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and 107 trucks are now engaged in the disposal of the city's refuse,

Ballarpur Industries is manufacturing aerated cement and perfb building materials from flyash.

Regional Pollution Protection and Development Demand Committee (RPPDDC), a newly formed organisation of Jagiroad has expressed serious apprehension about the unchecked disposal of toxic effluents by

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is organising a two-day international conference on oil spill response '99 in Mumbai on April 19. The objective of the conference is to respond to any oil

A massive winter storm arcing from the US Gulf coast to the upper midwest grounded scores of New Year's fights, knowcked out power to thousands and threatened to dump more than a foot(1/3 meter) of