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Germany's Greens were widely expected on Saturday to emdorse a coalition pact with Chancellor-elect Gerhard Schroeder that will bring the ecologist party into central government for the first

A volcano erupted in northern Japan on Sunday, sending a column of smoke 1,200 metres into the sky, the Japan meteorological agency said. No injuries or damage were reported. The 1,131-metre high

The Centre for Science and Environment has written to the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, asking him to be vigilant and protect the economic interests of India, at the Buenos Aires

rights panel pulls up PCB : The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has pulled up the Pollution Control Board(PCB) for its failure to contain pollution in the State Industries Promotion Corporation

Even as the Haryana Government undertakes de-watering operation on a war footing, over 65,000 acres continue to be under two to four feet of water in half the 92 villages of Hansi. The situation is

When the Nepal government banned beer and soft drink bottles from the Everest region this year, it was not sure how the locals would react. But two months later, officials look visibly relieved that

Typhoon Babs raced toward southern China on Saturday, leaving behind a trail of destruction on the Philippines' main island where at least 124 people died and hundreds of thousands wer forced to flee

The Green Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Pollution Control Board (PCB) to close forthwith 941 highly polluting industires in Tamil Nadu. These and 1,020 other units had been

When everybody thought that unleaded petrol was a sure-shot way of reducing air pollution, there was something else spewing lead into Delhi's atomosphere. As the rest of the city sleeps, 15 lead

The state government yesterday submitted a revised estimate of Rs 464 crore to an official Central team which has come to assess the drought situation. The team of Central Government officials

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