The environmentalist and Chairman of the Climate Institute, Washington, Sir Crispin Tickell, has warned that the accelerated ecological deterioration of planet earth portends catastrophic
In a country with a perrennial power crunch, the people of a tiny mountain village in Kerala have taken a huge step towards meting their electricity needs by setting up a micro hydel power project.
A Steel Authority of India oficial has claimed that the well-known mass-to-energy conversion equation propounded by Albert Einstein is "inaccurate, and violates basic physics." Mr Shankar Hazra, a
Dr Sandhya Mitra, an eminent Indian scientist and author, has been selected for two international awards. The American biographical Institute Board of International Research has selected Dr Mitra for
Scientist Somendra Mohan Ghosh plans to appeal to the Union government to amend the International Patent Act in India. The law will enable scientists like him to file criminal charges against anybody
India has few chances of getting the basmati patent cancelled, a leading conservation scientist of India has said. Mr.P. Pushpangadan, director of the Tropical Botanical Garden Research Institute in
A Global Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) based on the principle of market-based mechanisms to help cut harmful 'greenhouse gas' emissions agreed to by nations at the Kyoto Conference on 'Climate Change'
Thers is a move afoot in the Union ministry for environment and forests (MoEF) to reduce the environmental clearance process for new industrial projects. The most significant is the proposal to
Gujjars, whose population in Jammu and kashmir has crossed 12 lakhs, have conveyed their resentment to the National Conference for having nominated a prominent community leader to the Rajya Sabha
CAG : Water supplied by the Delhi Water Supply and Sewage Disposal Undertaking (DWS& SDU) to the Ntional Capital Territory of Delhi since 1990 has been reported to be dirty, turbid and foul
