RICH HARVEST: The Minneapolis-based Cargill Inc, the biggest private firm in the US is eyeing the rapidly growing Asian food market. It plans to invest US $1.5 billion over 10 years, mainly in

With the sighting of an important gasfield in Bhola, in the south islands on the tip of Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh's gas reserves will soon go up 10 per cent from the current reserves of 10,000

Pakistan will soon benefit from an interestfree US $140 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to improve its drainage system. Under the aegis of a national drainage programme, problems of

With garbage piling mountain-high in Nepal, countries like Russia are now taking up the cause of cleaning up the awe-inspiring Mount Everest. Oleg Fedorov, a Russian ecologist believes that it is

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNIDO, will now have to do without its principal paymaster - the United States. At the UNIDO general conference held in the first week of

• An award called 'zile ki sabse hari panchayat' was announced on December 6 by the environment ministry, for the best afforestation result achieved by a panchayat in each district. •

Uttar Pradesh has become the first state to set up human rights courts in all its districts. The Governor of the state recently constituted human rights courts in as many as 63 districts of the

Microsoft is in trouble for its money-spinner software, Windows 95. Investigations are on against the world's largest software company, about claims that its latest package causes deliberate

Union Carbide Corporation was under fire from 25 environment and human rights groups across the US, on the eleventh anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy. They demanded that the company should face

More blood is likely to flow in Nigeria. Come 1996, and 19 more comrades of the executed Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa will go through the same mockery of justice, and probably end up in the gallows.