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

A Gujarat based NGO, Medhavi, was awarded the Vijay Ratna on Thursday by the Indian International Friendship Society in Delhi for enriching the quality of life of the disadvantaged

The police are trying to ascertain if a skeleton found in Lakhimpur district of Upper Assam can unravel the mystery behind the killing of social worker Sanjoy Ghose. Though the banned ULFA has said

Even 50 years after Independence, drinking water is yet to reach hundreds of villages, particularly those located in the western Rajasthan's desert area. On the other hand, the growth in population,