India and the UK have signed an MoU for cooperation in the field of biotechnology. The two governments have agreed to cooperate over a wide range of areas that include vaccines for communicable and
Two genes lock in a tur-of-war to determine whether a mammal embryo will become male or female , a new study suggests. One of the genes, called SRY, has long been known as the master switch that
Consumer organisations are to urge governments to set up a database to track international trade in food, to prevent produce rejected as unfit by one country being dumped elsewhere. Consumers
Egypt has moved a step closer to constructing the world's biggest pumping station, now that a consortium led by Kvaerner of Norway and Hitachi Corporation has won a $434 m contract to build the plant
Alagh :More than 20 power projects envisaging generation of 10,000 to 11,000 MW are awaiting environmental clearance, the Union Minister of State for Power , Mr Y K Alagh, said here today.
The Deepar Beel-Pachpara Cooperative Society has threatened to launch vigorous stir if a ban on fishing in Deepar Beel is imposed in the name of the proposed bird sanctuary. Announcing this at a
The valuable forest resources in the Assam-Nagaland border and the Numbor reserved forest under Golaghat district have been destroyed by the encroachers and the anti-social elements. The forest
The Capital is facing a serious water crisis. The production of drinking water has been reduced by half because of a sharp deterioration in the quality of raw water in the Yamuna. The quantum of
The Ministry of Water Resources has set up a Non-Government Organisation grouop for creating public opinion amongst people to convince basin States for agreeing to the linking of peninsular rivers
