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China announced a rescue package of up to $120 billion in bank loans to help agriculture and industry recover from ruinous floods. The money would come from commercial banks over the next four

A scientific team that visited the site of the July 17 tsunami on the Papua New Guinea coast has theorized that the deadly waves were probably the result of an undersea landslide caused by an

Chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Monday said that the 'Clean-green Andhra pradesh' programme would be launched throughout the state on September 10 with a three-day

This trading town of some 150,000, one of India's principal-- and in all probability the state's (West Bengal) largest--producer of bidis , faces a threat to its existence. The swollen Ganga has

For the first time, India will present its research findings in the Antarctic at the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)meeting beginning in Christchurch, New Zealand, today.The Deputy

At least 91 persons have been killed in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Syngja district in central Nepal, an official news agency has said.

The Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr. Babulal Marandi, on Monday said the Bihar State Government is not cooperating with the Centre to expedite implementation of environment projects in

geologists: The sudden spate of landslips in the Kumaon and Garhwal hills of Uttar Pradesh is the results of tectonic changes induced into the region by the 1991 Uttarkashi earthquake, according to

Nearly 200 houses in Narnaund town of Hansi sub-division of Hisar district were submerged in, following a breach in the Hisar major near Narnaund. The subdivisional Magistrate Hansi, Mr Vijaynder

The Greenpeace Mediterranean office welcomed the recent position of the Turkish Environment Ministry against hospital waste incineration, and it called for the dismantling of all incinerators in the

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