The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) is optimistic about effluent treatment plants (ETPs) and common ETPs (CEPTs) starting work in Tirupur as directed by the courts. G Rengaswamy, member

Gujarat government, Trumac Engineering Company and the labour commissioner have been issued notices by the Gujarat high court regarding the unhygenic working conditions of the company's sweep- ers.

According to a common position paper adopted by 16 UN organisations, India has the largest number of child workers in the world. The paper was launched by the UN resident co-ordinator of India,

Heavy polluters have to pay heavy fines. Truck manufacturers realise this the hard way

Titanium Equipment and Anode Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TEAM), which has been manufacturing sea water desalination plants since 1983, will commission its 100th plant on Sunday for Chennai Metro Water.

The five day old International Space Station has developed three small malfunctions, but they will not prevent it from docking with its next module early next month, the head of the Russian space

Automobile manufacturers in France, in association with steel and plastic manufacturers, have developed new recycling technologies to use automobile scraps. Now, only 75 per cent of each vehicle can

NASA program managers set Dec. 3 as the official launch date for the STS-88 mission aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. This is the first Shuttle mission dedicated to the assembly of the International

Japanese researchers have developed an environmentally-friendly boat hull coating that could provide an alternative to paints suspected of polluting waterways with hormone-disrupting chemicals.

A Russian rocket boosted the first piece of an international space station into orbit in a smooth start to an ambitious international engineering project. This was the first of dozens of launchings