It may not be just out of his concern for effective governance that the Chief Minister, Mr Jyoti Basu, recently pulled up the State Health Department for the sorry state of affairs in hospitals and

The fate of several globally endangered species has been threatened by dwindling grasslands in Assam, which has no natural grassland of any significance worth conservation left, say wild-life

Bangladesh's total population stood at 12,70,35,000 as of April 19. The present population has been estimated based on the last population census conducted on March 11, 1991 when the country's

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry began a trial run of a pilot plant for recycling home appliances. MITI will collect data on cost and other factors for one year to examine the process

The drug tamoxifen is the first compound ever shown to reduce certain women's chances of developing breast cancer. But in some cases, the benefits of the drug may pale next to its dangers : a

Commuters driving through this hamlet, on the outskirts of Lucknow, may be denied the pleasure of witnessing the sight of mouth-watering Dussehris hanging from the branches of thousands of mango

The seafood exporters association of India has demanded the Central Government to pass the Aquaculture bill. A delegation of the association led by its president Mr. A. J. Tharakan, which met the

US : The US message for India at WTO's trade policy review was that India was not doing enough about implementing WTO obligations, and should open up faster. US ambassador Rita Derrick Hayes called

The 2000-odd villagers are inching towards death, consciously. They drink water knowing that the fluoride in it is paralysing them and will eventually kill them. Half-hearted measures by the state

Major land transport companies in Japan have begun to accelarate their switch to low-emission vehicles, despite their relative inefficiency. One reason is last year's emission agreements at the U.N.