Rescue workers and soldiers laboured across Taiwan yesterday to dig survivors form the wreckage of their homes as the death toll from the worst earthquake to hit the island in decades climbed towards

The World Bank yesterday backed calls for forthcoming global trade negotiations to focus on the needs of developing countries and warned that failure to do so could set back development efforts and

Ground water contaminated by former French's Landfill has triggered a ban on the use of private irrigation wells at 2,200 households in the Herbertsville (U.S.) section. The landfill, built in the

More than half of Northern India is in the grip of severe drought. The worst-affected states are Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Western Uttar

The Chusok holidays in South Korea are likely to be marred by heavy downpours this year, as the country comes under the influence of Typhoon Bart, weather officials said yesterday. The Korea

Seismologists warned earlier this year Taiwan could be due for a cataclysmic earthquake. The island straddles a major fault line on the western edge of the Pacific "rim of fire", leaving it

In many places in this immense flood zone in eastern North Carolina, an incredible stench fills the air as the bloated bodies of drowned hogs and immense piles of dead turkeys and

A veritable oasis of green in the midst of shifting sand-dunes and arid landscape is the Anant Vijay Nature Park(AVNP) in Bikaner nurtured by the jawans of the Ranbakura division.The transformation

The Madhya Pradesh Government has sought financial assistance of Rs 75 crores from the Central Government for relief works in flood-affected areas even as the swollen Narmada was flowing 3.82 meters

The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB-Metrowater) has proposed to execute works for improving the sewer network in two phases at an estimated cost of Rs. 1,010