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It was the Kursk tragedy revisited as Russia lost another of its nuclear submarines to the Barents Sea. The incident, in which nine servicemen were killed, came just three years after the nuclear

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has resigned. She s ended, as a newspaper put it, her third honeymoon with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a coalition partner. It is being said the Taj corridor stink is partly responsible for this fresh round of polit

Fluoridation raises concerns

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala was once known as the cleanest city in India. Today, it is littered with garbage

The draft guidelines on ship recycling, finalised at a meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (mepc) of the International Maritime Organisation (imo), have recognised that the

A strain of influenza has left more than 700 people sick in the remote mountainous district of Dadeldhura in Nepal. The

The death toll in the unprecedented heat wave has reached an all-time high of 1,139 in Andhra Pradesh, causing panic among the people of the state. The coastal and Telangana regions in particular are

Bangladesh's national policy on arsenic mitigation is likely to be finalised soon. Officials are deliberating on

toddlers in trouble: A research institute has found high levels of mercury in 60 per cent of newborns at hospitals in Itaituba city, in the Brazilian Amazon. Out of the 1,666 babies born during 2002

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