Dozens of Victorian shearers may have been unknowingly poisoned by a chemical linked to the manufacture of nerve gas, unions say. The Australian Workers Union is contacting shearers who think they

If the SNDT campus at Santa Cruz boasts of a bakul avenue, Dadar's Parsi Colony has a green canopy and Chowpatty has a little grove, it is largely bacause of the efforts of the Friends of Trees

A dozen foreign funded voluntary organisations are aiming to change the lives of the people in Ladakh. And if their initial efforts at ecological perservation, illiteracy eradication and health

Five Nepali grassroots conservationists have been awarded the prestigious Abraham Conservation Award 1998 by WWF. The Award was set up in 1995 by Nancy Abraham's

About one lakh people to be displaced on completion of the Punasa dam across Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh are likely to get the rehabilitation package on the lines of that received by the oustees

Representatives of several non-governmental organisations met the Union Finance Minister Mr. Yashwant Sinha, and pleaded for more favourable tax treatment of the non-profit sector in the forthcoming

The MP assembly has adopted a Bill giving right to information to the citizens of the state. Piloting the Bill which was later passed, parliamentary affairs minister Rajendra Prasad Shukla claimed

There is a serious rethink by the Human resource development (HRD) ministry to go ahead with the the pending Constitutional Amendmant Bill making free and conpulsory elementary education a

Russian space officials are preparing the old, frail and forgetful Mir spacecraft for an assisted suicide. A top official at RKK Energia, the company that built Mir and oversees it, said that

Four days after the reported "discovery" of the abducted social activist, Sanjoy Ghose's mortal remains from Majuli in Assam, his wife Sumita latches on to the belief that he is in custody of the