With a view to making dryland farming more meaningful and practical and fecilitate transfer of technology onto the field, dryland farmers will be involved in the research activity of agricultural
US scientists have identified a special breed of mice that can regrow the end of their tails and other tissues, demonstrating a feat of regeneration that was previously unknown in mammals. The
The Human Genome Project, the ambitious attempt to analyse the human genetic inheritance, is in danger of fostering a new form of eugenics, a US biologist has told the American Association for the
The wild elephants that once roamed freely over southern China retreated long ago to the dense tropical rain forest that covers the mountains here near the borders with Burma and Laos. The dwindling
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started the inquiry into the tendu leaf case in Madhya Pradesh. Accepting the request of the State Government, the Union Ministry of Home has entrusted
The State has been awarded the first prize for outstanding performance towards popularisation of solar photo-voltaic programme during 1995-96 by the Union Ministry of Non-conventional Energy
Doctors in New Delhi are now dissolving blood clots which block cardiac arteries with a new painless non-invasive ultra-sound technique. The new procedure called Acolysis was performed for the first
The paper industry has offered to reforest two million hectare of degraded forest lands. Indian paper manufacturers, as producers of wood-based products and good corporate citizens, are committed to
The Indian Council of Medical Research has called for relaxing the law on legitimacy of a child born after the separation of parents, in the light of advances in the field for assisted reproductive
Though Parliament enacted a legislation some time ago banning carrying of night soil by scavengers, the Act is being flagrantly violated in the constituency of Union home minister Indrajit Gupta. The
