The dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organisation has asked India to bring its legal regime for patent protection of pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical products in confirmity with the

As many as 2,029 projects, mainly in key infrastructure areas, are pending for clearance with the Ministry of Envrionment and Forests(MEF) for over a year mainly because of processing delays at the

Aparna Sen, still the leading lady of Tollywood, will appear on the small screen to make Calcuttans aware of the problems of

After floods, cyclones, tornadoes and drought, the disaster-prone Orissa woke up to a new calamity to contend with this summer, the killer heat wave which turned the State into a burning cauldron.

The Madhya Pradesh Government's latest decision to grant lease to more than two lakh slum dwellers across the State has opened up a Pandora's box and it remains to be seen whether the Government

The ambitious project to cleanse the Ganges of pollution accounts for over 23 per cent or Rs. 192 crores of the Plan Budgetary allocations of Rs. 820 crores for the Ministry of Environment and

Changes in Costa Rica's much-maligned Forestry Law, and the way logging is managed, are some of the sweeping reforms that new acting Environment Minister Carlos Manuel Rodr

Lok Ayukta Justice D J Jagannadha Raju has directed the Andhra Pradesh state pollution control board (PCB) to check and monitor regularly the treatment of effluents of Krebs Bio-chemicals Ltd, Allur,

The cyclonic storm that hit Gujarat on Tuesday has caused damage of several hundred crores to port installations and cargo, including rice export stocks worth over Rs 200 crore, at the Kandla port.

The flood situation continues to be grim in most of the upper Assam districts following continuous downpour since the beginning of the last week. All the major rivers and tributaries of various