India's foremost destination management company SITA World Travel (India) Ltd has released a new travel brochure, which suggest tourists to choose from "20 Green and Secret Places" in

After prolonged wrangling over dates, the seven members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation have finally agreed to hold their 10th summit in Colombo from July 29, official sources

In a huge victory for the tobacco industry, a Florida appeals court reversed a two year old landmark jury verdict against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. and ordered the case

"In a ruling that could slam the door on efforts to challenge or circumvent" Austin, TX's strict water-quality regulations, a state district judge last week struck down a law allowing large

Smokers are more than twice as likely as non-smokers to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the international medical journal, The Lancet. The study of

The Central Government must remove the foundries from "red category" as they are not highly polluting as believed to be.There are in fact, no effluents and only emissions which could be easily

In a bid to bring about better surveillance and to implement steps to control diseases spread by mosquitoes, the state government has declared malaria, Japanese encephalitis and dengue fever as

The farmers and people's representatives of the 29 taluks of six districts have decided to launch an indefinite hunger-strike in front of the Deputy commissioner's office in Tumkur from Thursday

The Government has shut down 125 'highly polluting' industries across the country while 1,261 such units have now installed the pollution control facilities, according to a

All India Action Committee of Spices Manufacturers has threatened to launch agitation if 8 per cent Central excise duty on branded spices is not withdrawn.