The public bodies that help companies win big environmentally sensitive contracts abroad are increasingly being targeted by campaigners. Worldwide, environmentalists are campaigning for social and

A total of one hundred and five people have died in floods and landslides related deaths in Nepal since mid-April while four people are missing, the Central Calamity Rehabilitation Committiee

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed contempt proceedings against eight imams who had been served notices for disobeying a Calcutta high court order banning the use of microphones for azaan.A

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued directives to polluting industries in the industrial area around Kanpur to submit details of their pollution control installaitons within a

The Surface Transport Ministry has given environment clearance to the multi-crore Gujarat Ambuja Cements project to create an oil jetty at the bulk cement terminal at Muldwarka, in Amreli district,

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recommended a ban on plastic bags in a proposal submitted to the State Government recently. Ten days ago, Minister for Environment and Forests

Three tsunamis, the largest 10 metres high, crashed into a 30 kilometer stretch of Papua New Guinea's northwestern coast, washing seven villages clean away and smoothing the ground where they had

The 1998 World Disasters Report produced by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies points to a decrease in humaniturian aid for disaster victims over the last decade in

The European Commission proposed a tax on imports of US corn gluten - proteins used in animal feed in retaliation against restrictions by Washington on imports of wheat gluten. The gluten skirmish is

A Division Bench comprising Justice M R Calla and Justice J R Vora of Gujarat High Court has upheld the decision of the single judge on Vadodare Municipal Corporation's awarding sewage treatments