When Estonia was given the sailing event for the 1980 Olympic games, Moscow poured money into building the Baltic Repupblic's first sewage treatment plant. But the plant was not ready in time. Two

North Korea, beset by a severe famine, warned it would run out of stocks within two weeks, but analysts expressed caution about the claim. The North's official news agency said that grain shortages,

Litigation-hit Sanghi Cements is likely to be commissioned in September 1998. With the project cost shooting up to Rs 815 crore from the originally slated Rs 870 crore due to legal wrangles involving

A nine-day pollution control campaign for the northern sector was launched by Lt-Gen S C Chopra, Chief of Staff Headquarters, Northern Command, at a function held at Udhampur today.

It is boom time for the small and medium size (upto three star) hoteliers in Puri, the temple town of Orissa. Tourists from across the country and abroad perennially throng this historic city,known

The Central Pollution Control Board has come out with a booklet on 'management of municipal solid waste' based on field surveys carried out in different towns and cities across the coutry. A release

The ever-increasing demand for eco-friendly packaging of products by developed countries, especially the EU nations, is to affect Indian exports. For instance, in Germany, ther is already an

Though international financial agencies have raised national income and boosted econonies in the developing countries, they have left vast ecological devastation behind in the wake of repayment of

United Breweries' distillery unit at Serampore in West Bengal has been given a third lease of life by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board. The unit has been given time till April 1998 to put in

A prolonged drought in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state has wiped out nearly 12,350 acres of rice and other crops worth $1.9 million, a report said on Monday. The Star daily cited Sabah state