Bimla Devi, Susheela, Geeta, Rashmi, Lakshmi and Munesh have one thing in common. They are all forced to work hard to keep their hunger at bay. These women are forced to step out of their homes and

Last week fishermen in Dabhol region finally resumed fishing in the creek after a gap of 10 months. All fishing activities had come to a standstill following a massive fish kill in May 1997 when

The increasing demand for drinking water and continuous discharge of effluents into the Gomti has sent alarm bells ringing through the corridors of the UP Pollution Control Board. Starting February

A division Bench of the Allahabad High Court, comprising Justice Giridhar Malviya and Justice K D Sahi, on Friday directed the state government to ensure uninterupted power supply free of charge to

Taiwan has agreed to lease land to Bayer, the German pharmaceuticals concern, to build a controversial US$1.5 bn chemical plant after years of delay over the environmental concerns. As hundreds of

India will receive assistance from the United States for reducing pollution and growing economically in a climate-friendly way. The development assistance account includes an increase of $44 million

The famine in central Afghanistan has grown worse, and tens of thousands of people will starve to death within weeks if food does not reach them, a US Congressman said on Tuesday. Mr Dana

The Allahabad High Court on Friday issued a show cause notices to a dozen industries of Gorakhpur and Sant Kabir Nagar districts in Uttar Pradesh, asking them to explain why they were discharging

The hot-mix plant in Rangpuri in south-west Delhi was sealed on Friday. Orders for its sealing had been issued by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee earlier this week.

For the hospitals in Delhi, medical waste management is a non-existent problem. There is no proper demarcation of infectious and non-infectious waste, the incinerators operate at a temperature lower