Jagan assets case: Notice to six ministers and eight bureaucrats

Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy in a fix

Cold takes south India by surprise

Could be due to cold winds from north India or Arctic Oscillation

Bombay HC halts work at Mulund-Thane SEZ

Asks project proponent to immediately stop dumping solid waste to reclaim land 

Avian flu killing Jharkhand crows: virology institute

Highly pathogenic H5N1virus that can even spread to humans

Government for raising awareness on tobacco’s role in TB

A section on tobacco consumption added to the national programme for TB control

Measles catch-up campaign falls short of expectation

Health ministry officials say impact of the campaign will show results later

Make unethical drug trials a punishable offence, say experts

Current laws do not fix penalty if such practices are found

'Indian nuke power plants safe'

Nucear safety panel recommends additional design provisions

Onion growers blockade highway; demand revoking export ban

Consumers likely to face the brunt

Nirma's cement plant hits hurdle

Supreme Court asks the industrial house to prove that the plant site is a wasteland

UN Security Council steps into climate change

Calls attention to potential threat of climate on international peace

Environment ministry firm on 'no-go' zones

Says mining in no-go zone against Forest Conservation Act

Spanner on Mumbai's free floor space project

Builders exploit civic administration's plan, make fortunes

Public consultation on projects must: HC

Rules while hearing a petition on transfer of land to Bangalore Metro

Zero maternal death in two former war-torn districts of Sri Lanka

Efforts on to reduce nation's MMR to 24 per 100,000 live births by 2015

Use of toxic chemical HBCD severely restricted under Stockholm Convention

The persistent organic pollutant is used in building insulation, especially in the EU

Solar mission phase II: viability gap funding not the best way to subsidise solar photovoltaic plants, say analysts

It may lead to setting up of inefficient solar projects under National Solar Mission

India to double renewable energy capacity in 5 yrs: PM

Clean energy ministerial meet expected to evolve financing mechanisms

Strong evidence to link RF radiations to various health disorders: Bioinitiative Report

Earlier report of 2007 had dwelt mainly on carcinogenicity of such radiations

Coimbatore residents oppose setting up of sewage treatment plant

Threaten to sit on protest if the plant is not relocated

Uttar Pradesh engages Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health, agriculture and financial services to the poor

Health activists wary

MoEF to do away with environmental clearance for mining minor minerals in areas less than 5 ha

Jayanthi Natarajan asks officials to take stock in various states

Four leopards killed every week in India: WWF

Report warns that the endangered cat may reach near extinction as happened with tiger

Meeting on final agreement for Bhopal waste disposal ends without decision

 Group of Ministers headed by P Chidambaram to take final decision now 

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