Taking a cue from PM Manmohan Singh, who said in an interview with a leading journal that NGOs funded from the US and Scandinavian countries were trying to stall Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, minis

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has lashed out at the activist groups trying to stall the operationalising of the Koodankulam nuclear power plant.

India has become the testing ground for a whole range of GM crops. These include paddy, wheat, maize, mustard, okra even as testing for the controversial Bt brinjal continues.

Researchers claim India is losing its forests more rapidly than Brazil and Malaysia. They question the findings of the latest State of the Forest Report 2011 which highlights that forest cover has increased by nearly five per cent between 1997 and 2007 and is presently covering nearly 24 per cent of India’s geographical area.

A media survey spread across six districts of the Kashmir valley, including Srinagar, Anantnag and Baramulla have found Kashmiri youth to be amongst the most media savvy in the world.

A media survey spread across six districts of the Kashmir valley, including Srinagar, Anantnag and Baramulla have found Kashmiri youth to be amongst the most media savvy in the world.

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With increasing numbers of programmes of higher learning being taught in English, Germany has emerged as one of the most favoured destinations for Indian students.

Climate change has dramatically altered the face of the Himalayas. Ghulam Mohammad Malikyar, deputy director-general of the National Environmental Protection Agency of Afghanistan, warned that his country has already lost 72 per cent of its forest cover.

Is a solution finally in sight for the disposal of 350 metric tonnes of toxic waste which has been lying on the premises of the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal for a quarter century?

One of the first tasks cut out for distinguished woman scientist Shashi Bala Singh, when she was appointed director of the Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Leh, in 2007, was to try and step up fresh food production for the 80,000 jawans stationed in Ladakh.