A massive earthquake struck the northern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, triggering fears of tsunami waves from Japan to Canada to Indonesia, officials said. The earthquake was magnitude 8.1, some 600 km

An advanced disaster warning system to be developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro)

The denizens of Mizoram's Champhai district, especially Puilo, Dulte and Chhawrtui villages, are facing acute famine as most of their paddy fields or jhums (shifting cultivation) have been completely

The apprehension of floods in the Beas would be a deciding factor in the selection of a site for the proposed SEZ in Nurpur subdivision of Kangra district. The infrastructure developer for the

Efforts are on to ensure equity participation in major hydroelectric projects in order to derive maximum benefits for the Himachal Pradesh. This was stated by Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh while

Even though the State is no stranger to conservation groups and NGOs, the major concerns raised by the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report of the proposed seismic survey of the Brahmaputra

After a public hearing called by the Pollution Control Board of Assam in Dibrugarh on October 30 failed to break the deadlock that had arisen out of the Oil India Limited's decision to carry out a

As if starvation deaths are not natural but solely the cause of erring authorities, and not that of the Statre, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav promised to enact a law to deal with

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approve an ad hoc grant of Rs 1.57 billion to be spent on reconstruction of infrastructure, including power projects, hospitals, schools and roads, hit by last year's

The Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, said although entire Haryana falls in highly sensitive