The Indira Gandhi canal project is a costly failure that has led to destruction of habitat and loss of arable land

Rise in infectious diseases in the canal s command area

Ecological imbalance and pestilence in western Rajasthan

Adaptation in the desert

Babies infected at birth with a common sexually transmitted bacte

Humans may be transmitting new and dangerous viruses to Antarctica

With infectious diseases well under control in the developed world, it is the non infectious diseases that now threaten us

beef is bad, really. All speculations can now be put to rest with the confirmation through a study that eating a

from mad cow to mad fish. It is not the disease by another name; instead it is a "brand new disease' according to Donald Low, head of the department of microbiology at Mount Sinai and Princess