As many as 14 people, including several Indian-origin business owners and employees have been charged in a $53 million fraud scheme involving a COVID-19 pandemic relief programme in the US state of......
A female protester has thrown a shoe at Hillary Clinton, the former US Secretary of State, while she was delivering a speech in Las Vegas, media reports said. The woman was immediately taken into......
The Department of Atomic Energy is easily the worst-functioning department of the Indian government, says Praful Bidwai. Three weeks after a scrap dealer from Mayapuri in Delhi was hospitalised......
The city faces grave health and environmental risks posed by a whopping 19,000 tonnes of electronic waste produced in Mumbai, apart from a good amount of the same being imported clandestinely, a......
As activists protest against the journey of French warship -- Clemenceau -- to India where it is scheduled to be dismantled in Alang, Gujarat, the working conditions of the labourers employed in......
E-vehicles may face pollution hurdle with hazardous batteries. One lithium-ion battery has a potential to poison the whole water aquifer of Delhi. India’s ambitious electric-vehicle plan......
'If unchecked, by 2017, the global volume of discarded e-waste will weigh almost equivalent to 200 Empire State buildings.' E-waste, which comprises precious metals like gold and silver, can......
India is gradually becoming a dumping ground for electronic waste (e-waste). Toxics Link, a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation, claims India annually generates $1.5 billion worth of e-waste.......
Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav made the following speech while presenting the Railway Budget for 2004-2005 in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (July 6, 2004)."Mr Speaker Sir,I rise to present the......
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