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Unseasonal rain and repeated hailstorms have posed a serious threat to the tea industry in the Kangra valley. Tea produced in the area in April and May fetches the maximum price in the international

The space shuttle Columbia soared into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center carrying seven humans and more than 2,000 other mammals, fish and insects for 16 to 17 days of neurological research. The

The Supreme Court has directed the Attorney-general to report on the action taken by the Government in order to prevent biopiracy as in the case of the basmati rice patent.According to a press

Although the Maharashtra Government is fighting against time to meet the Rural Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation Project completion deadline of June 30, 1998 set by the World Bank. The State

The "river of life" Periyar is dying a slow death. With over 437,000 tonnes of its sand being mined and sold every day, Periyar has sunk by 12 feet during the last seven years. Today, the river bed

In a landmark judgment, a Gujarat High Court division bench of Chief Justice K Sreedharan and Justice A R Dave on Tursday held that the total ban imposed by the state government on slaughter of bulls

Cosmic thunderstorms are raging in the far reaches of space, generating windspeeds of more than 600 miles a second and temperatures hotter than the Sun, scientists report. Astronomers led by Jack

Some big dinosaurs often tripped and broke their ribs while chasing their prey, according to New Scientist magazine. Bruce Rothschild of the arithritis centre of north-east Ohio in Youngston studied

Govt : Just as Singaporeans were bracing for a spell of hazy weather, the Meteorological Service of Singapore has announced that Singaporeans will escape the smog emanating from the forest fires in

The fate of several globally endangered species has been threatened by dwindling grasslands in Assam, which has no natural grassland of any significance worth conservation left, say wild-life