The Centre on Monday decalred floods in West Bengal as a national calamity and announced a special grant of Rs 75 crore to the State as an immediate step towards relief and restoration work in 11

Thailand's financial crisis is driving the government to tap tourism in order to earn more foreign exchange. And it is promoting 'ecotourism' - or its own version of it - in a bid to open up the

Trade in hair is damaging the air, environmentalists complain. Jwalapuri, a sprawling shantytown in west Delhi, which houses scores of small and big outfits trading in human hair, mostly for

The Chhatisgarh region, which was reeling under a drought until last week, has been hit by flash floods following heavy rain over the weekend, while in north Bengal the flood situation had improved

A beetle infestation in Chicago could spell trouble for one of Asia's last healthy economies. The US officials last week announced a ban on untreated wooden packing materila from China, saying the

The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Central Public Works Department, Delhi Government, Civic Bodies and Central Pollution Control Board to devise an "aggressive" plan to deal with the problem of

The World Wide Fund-Rajasthan has asked the State Irrigation Department to find alternative sites to the Keoladeo Ghana National Park near Bharatpur so that the pressure of visitors to this unique 29

The Andhra Pradesh Governemnt promulgated an ordinance on Monday providing for constitution of a separate corporation named "Andhra Pradesh Infrastructure Development Corporation" to "promote,

Nepal is to reinforce its attempt to clean up the national park around Mount Everest-dubbed the world's highest garbage dump by critics-with a ban on the sale of bottled

The process to shift polluting units from populated areas in Ludhiana, Amritsar and Jalandhar has started.