THE NATIONAL Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, has prepared terminology for their science in eight Indian languages. About 400 terms have been selected and their equivalents prepared in Bengali,

HINDUSTAN Machine Tools is in the process of fabricating three 23 ft X 11 ft and 30 20 ft X 8 ft population clocks that will indicate, along with the time, the increase in size of the population

WHILE contaminated water has occupied centrestage in Udaipur for many years, the Pesticides India plant has been insidiously emitting odorous gases for almost as long. The plant manufactures

The Union ministry of forests and environment will soon set up a Central authority to monitor and regulate zoos in the country. This body will also be responsible for financial assistance to the

Forty five bodies have joined hands to mobilise protest campaigns against changes in laws which will comply with GATT proposals for a new economic regime

A short term economic policy has meant more unemployment and poverty as well as a slower growth rate and environmental degradation

ASIA TOPS the list of continents with the highest deforestation rate. The initial estimates of the 1990 tropical forest resources census show about 3.6 million ha -- or about 1.2 per cent -- of

WAS ROBERT C Gallo guilty, along with his colleagues at the US National Institute of Health, of scientific misconduct for their conduct and reporting of the crucial experiments that led to the

Even the lowly cow pat has ownership rules in rural India. But rights over dung, an important source of energy and soil fertilisation, vary from community to community

The Rajasthan and Haryana governments feel threatened by the Centre's move to stop industrial, mining and quarrying activity in the Aravalli region. Environmentalists, on the other hand, applaud the move