A strike at a Canadian nuclear reactor is threatening the global supply of medical isotopes which are used in cancer therapies and to perform imaging procedures. If the industrial action continues,
Plants could become a valuable source of raw materials for certain industrial chemicals and polymers, according to a team of international scientists from Australia, Sweden and Britain who have
The European Commission bowed to pressure from European Union countries and agreed that genetically modified food will only have to be labelled when its presence is
Five leading high tech companies introduced a technology that promises to accelerate the convergence of mobile communications and computing by allowing the wireless transfer of voice and data among
Millions of pagers sat silent on 20th May because a $250 million communications satellite lost track of Earth. This is the first time in 35 years that pagers have gone
The Taj Mahal, which has been exposed to pollution, rain and extreme weather conditions for years, is set to get a facelift under a Rs. 93-lakh international collaborative
Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma today promised to look into the death of a child caused due to drinking contaminated water in Zakir Nagar, an unauthorised colony, in the past one month. Though
Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal has ordered an inquiry into a series of suicides by small and marginal farmers and landless workers in Sangrur district. A Chandigarh-based human rights
The Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) will take over the nuclear weaponisation programme from the Atomic Energy Commission(AEC) under a new control structure being discussed within
