A law to regulate disposal of hospital wastes has been framed for the first time in the country by the Ministry of Environment. The law not only lays down the framework for safe disposal of hospital

The Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udhyog Sangathan, the largest organisation of survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster, has accused the Madhya Pradesh government of safeguarding the interests of the

The Haryana Pollution Control Board has decided to take various measures to simplify procedure of consent management for industry. The board has decided to take steps with a view to avoid

Floods have claimed 145 lives in three Chinese provinces since last Friday, pushing the toll to 1,145, official reports said

The NGO effort in setting up the Wetland Research and Training Centre (WRTC) at Gopalganj in Bangladesh deserves commendation. The conservation and sustainable management of the wetlands which cover

Despite a massive airlift of more than 12,000 tons of food over the last three and a half months, a famine has begun to take a significant number of lives in some parts of Bahr el Ghazal state in

Environmental approval has been granted for $300m park for Manhattan, to be developed by the Hudson River Park Conservancy. Unless disgruntled locals can stop the project, ground-breaking will begin

European environment ministers have agreed to ban the dumping of steel offshore oil rigs at sea. The installations will be returned to shore for recycling and disposal. The decision comes at the end

Relief workers sealed off the most devastated areas of Papua New Guinea on Friday, allowing hundreds and perhaps, thousand of unrecovered bodies, victims of a series of tidal waves a week ago to

With a special month-long sanitaiton-cum-cleanliness drive ending on July 2, the municipal corporation seems to be losing interest in "improving sanitation and cleanliness".