A herbal health kit developed by the Tropical Botanical Gardens and Research Institute (TBGRI) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, might be introduced in the public health system if the kit, based on

The Union government plans to introduce a bill in the Parliament to institute a national drug authority which would monitor and control the manufacture and marketing of drugs in India. Although a

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh's instruction earlier this year to ban 'tiger-shows' at the Kanha and the Bandhavgarh national parks has been the source of considerable simmering dissent

The famed Khajuraho temples in Madhya Pradesh could possibly suffer structural damage due to vibrations caused by aircraft movements in the vicinity. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)

Maharashtra may be more vulnerable to earthquakes than had been suspected, a study being conducted by the department of earth sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay indicates.

The West Bengal government is finding it extremely difficult to implement interim Supreme Court orders to relocate 122 chemical industries set up in Calcutta. The SC ruling had come earlier this year

NGOs will now be encouraged to invest in minor irrigation projects with the active participation of the beneficiaries, according to Pranab Mukherjee, deputy chairperson of the Planning Commission.

The polluter pays. This maxim seems to be ringing uncomfortably true for Exxon Corp and Union Carbide Corp whose image was further tarnished when they were listed among the 8 worst corporate

French prime minister Edouard Balladur has stirred up a hornet's nest by reviving the Rhine-Rhone Canal project first proposed and also rejected in 1961. The environmentalists, including France's

Despite vehement domestic and international opposition, China has decided to go ahead with the massive new dam project on the Yangtze