Britain is to lead efforts to create an "environmental Interpol", fighting against an illegal worldwide trade in wildlife, hazardous waste and dangerous chemicals worth pound 20

Jain Mahasabha, Delhi, has decided to confer this year's Bhagwan Mahavir Sadbhawana Award on Mr Sunder Lal Bahuguna for his laudable efforts in awakening the public opinion for environment

One of the greenest belts around Bhubaneswar, the famous Chandaka Dampara wildlife sanctuary may soon degenerate into the wasteland it was in the early 80s. The government apathy to its maintenance

The people of a tiny mountain village Pathanpara, in Kerala, have taken a huge step towards meeting their own electricity needs by setting up a micro hydel power

Despite the continuing controversy over Enron's participation the promoters of the 513-MW Kannur power project in Kerala are confident of getting the final go-ahead shortly and taking up

The World Bank is in talks with the Finance Ministry for putting in place a partial risk guarantee programme for the largest power project in the country, the 3,950 MW Orissa-based Hirma

In every two minutes one woman dies as a result of complications of pregnancy or childbirth in the South Asia region, which accounts for 40 per cent of the global total, Dr Uton Muchhtar Rafei, the

A Chinese pharmaceutical company has developed a "morning-after" birth control pill that once made widely available, could cut the number of abortions each year by as much as 40 per cent, The China

Environment India'98, the country's first international exhibition, conference and film festival on environment, concluded on Monday with a commitment by participants to use ecologically-friendly

Child labourers from 98 countries participating in the Global March Against Child Labour will arrive in New Delhi on Thursday. Celebrity human rights activists Bianca Jagger and Kerry Kennedy Cuomo