• Labour minister P A Sangma informed Parliament recently that the Centre had approved a Rs 850 crore child labour eradication scheme in the country. • Under the National River

With a view to check the smoking menace, the Delhi High Court has issued show-cause notices to the Central and the Delhi governments. They have been asked to explain why a petition seeking the ban of

For the 28 labourers of Muzaffarnagar (UP) -- including 10 women and 11 children -- who were forced to work in a brick kiln and were illegally confined by its owner at Khekhra village in Meerut (UP),

A major water crisis seems to be brewing in Asia. Whether it is China, Australia, India or Vietnam the problem is universal as millions of people struggle with droughts or water shortages that have

President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil has decided that the state-owned oil company Petrobas has been pampered silly and needs to be disciplined. He proposes to do so by selling it off to

The Damocles' sword of an import ban by the US has forced Bangladesh's garment industry sources to sack all child labour by October instead of phasing them out over the next 2 years, as planned

A long summer of discontent seems to be in store for residents of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Last year, the city's Simly Dam reservoir had dropped to a record low level because of a prolonged

A modular bridge kit made of railroad flatcar decks