A sub-committee of the Gangotri Conservation Project has been constituted to check recession of the gangotri glacier. With GCP director, General Sushil Kumar as the chairman, the sub-committee will

US farmers are a hardy lot but many are beginning to succumb to despair, cursing a catastrophic drought and the Asian economic crisis that are costing them billions of dollars. The scorching heat

Flooding of the Nile has reached a "dangerous level," the Sudanese undersecretary of irrigation, Ahmed Mohammad Adam, has warned, and dozens of villages have been imperiled. The official called on

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