Sujay Mehdudia

NEW DELHI: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora on Friday said that he had sought big time participation of Indian companies in the Russian oil and gas fields, particularly in East Siberia, and had expressed interest in importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Moscow to meet its ever growing energy needs.

Water is not distributed evenly over the globe. Fewer than 10 countries possess 60% of the world's available fresh water supply: Brazil, Russia, China, Canada, Indonesia, U.S., India, Columbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, local variations within countries can be highly significant.

Less than 3% of the world's water is fresh - the rest is seawater and undrinkable.

Norilsk Set To Avoid $178 Million Pollution Suit RUSSIA: April 10, 2008 MOSCOW/ST PETERSBURG - Norilsk Nickel appears likely to avoid a $178 million pollution suit after the head of Russia's environment agency on Wednesday disowned a claim filed by his outspoken deputy. Rosprirodnadzor head Vladimir Kirillov told reporters his agency had not brought any suit against Norilsk, the world's largest nickel and palladium miner and the subject of rival merger proposals by Kremlin-linked billionaires.

>> Authorities confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Suffolk county, the UK, on November 13. An exclusion zone was imposed at the site and about 6,000 poultry were ordered to be

The uk plans to claim sovereign rights over a million square kilometres of the remote seabed off Antarctica. The move is believed to be a prelude for seeking exploration rights over potential

Moscow recently announced that all genetically modified (gm) food in the city will now have a city-wide label. Ecologists welcomed the move while producers called it a complex and expensive

A Greenpeace study in St Petersburg, Russia, says 40 per cent of the city's waste is dumped into the Neva river due to shortage of waste treatment facilties. And this has been contaminating fish