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

The fields nearby village Sehatganj situated on the Raisen-Bhopal road, are heaped with abundant garbage and waste of the factories which stink badly. During rains the garbage flows to the river

In a controversial decision, the Dahanu Taluka Environment Protection Authority has permitted P&O Ports to collect data relating to the environment and conduct an oceanography survey at Vadhawan in

In a bid to do their bit for the city, many companies and social organisaitons had volunteered to beautify traffic islands with plants and shrubs, adding nmuych needed greenery. But after the initial

Medical waste produced in Guru Tegh Bahadur hospital is sent each day to the incinerator-supposedly, for safe disposal. The problem: For quite some time, the unit has been operating at only about