A committee set up by the Delhi government to review the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act has suggested changes allowing the use of more food colours and negligible presence of todent hair in
Amoco-Enron solar power development of the US has finally withdrawn from its 50-mw solar electric power project, based on photovoltaic technology, which was to come up at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. Its
The report of a five member fact finding team of HURINEO, a non-governmental organisation, which visited the Rengali dam project and met the displaced people of the nearby submerged villages of the
A study by a team at the University of California in San Francisco of 300,000 women suggests the interval between pregnancies can influence the weight of a newborn child. The researchers
A nasal spray that acts as a vaccine against influenza-that's what researchers at Vandebilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tennessee, are working on. Dr. Thomas Boyce says the experiments
The number of people, affected by natural and man made disasters in the country every year, is estimated to touch 300 to 500 million by the turn of the 21st century. This was disclosed at a seminar
The Alternative Hydro Energy Centre (AHEC), University of Roorkee has recommended irrigation measures involving a cost of Rs. 16 crores for the Darjeeling tea gardens to effect a 10 to 15 per cent
Although forest areas in many VDCs of Ilam district are being destroyed consistently for many years, effective conservation measures have not been adopted so
Scientists at University College London have identified a gene associated with physical performance in humans. Scientists found evidence that the I type of the ACE gene, rather than the D type, is
