Pollution in the Alang Sosiya Shipbreaking Yard (ASSBY) in Gujarat was well within legal parameters, according to a combined study conducted by the Gujarat Ecology Commission and Metallurgical and
Jagdish Chandra Bose, the Indian biologist and physicist, developed the crucial device that picked up the first wireless morse-coded message sent across the Atlantic Ocean by Marconi in 1901, which
National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC) has firmed up plan to diversify into hydel and non-conventional power generation . The public sector power major is targeting projects with a capacity
Inadequate availability of hybrid seeds of vegetable crops developed by farm universities in Himachal Pradesh has left the field open for private seed companies. At the same time, the research work
Mr. P R Kuppusamy, convener of the Committee for Protection of the Cauvery, based in Karur in Central Tamil Nadu, agonises that all his work of years now stand imperilled. In his latest missive
With a view to countering rising incidence of poaching and illegal trade and wide-ranging threats detrimental to tiger habitats in major tiger range countries of Nepal, Bhutan, India, Bangladesh and
India and France have agreed to promote collaborative research in several areas of biotechnology, including silkworm genome. An agreement in this regard has been signed by the Minister of State for
SC 'axe' on erring officials: The Supreme Court, in its recent judgement regarding the felling and transportation of timber, has come down hard on erring forest officials instrumental in the illegal
The number of "green consumers" will grow rapidly, and are increasingly willing to pay more money for products seen as environmentally-friendly, said Dentsu, the world's largest advertising agency in
