Two of the three artifically reared Siberian cranes who had made Keoladeo National Park their home this year and had successfully braved the scorching heat of Bharatpur, have suddenly disappeared.

The standard and quality of the tea being sold at present in the market, in most cases, leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Enquiries made by 'The Sentinel' revealed that what is sold as tea in the

The state government has taken its fight against the environmental degradation of coal mines to the High Court green bench. Taking cognisance of a public complaint against a mine in Burdwan, the

Scientists have discovered why some people never get addicted to cigarettes and why all smokers do not develop tobacco-related cancers. For some people, a common genetic defect reduces their ability

The House has voted 223 to 202, to prohibit the US Food and Drug Administration from using federal money to test, develop or approve any drug that chemically induces

Doctors working in Taliban-held Afghanistan were ordered on Thursday to deny treatment to women not accompanied by a clost male relative, state-run radio Shariat

The Public Health Engineering Department(PHE) of Assam has so far implemented more than 3,500 small and medium pipe water schemes and more than 1,45,000 tube-wells in various places of the state.In

The battle between commercial and sport fishermen in Costa Rica has been long and, often, vicious. However, a recent proposal drafted by Guanacaste sports and commercial fishing interests, as well as

Costa Rica's pro-wildlife image is at risk, warn animal protection groups, unless authorities stop a "dolphinarium" being developed as a tourist attraction off its northwestern shores. Involving the

"Antiquated power plants are releasing three times as much pollution into the air as they would if they'd been built under current standards," according to a new report by the US PublicInterest