Space Shuttle managers selected June 2 as the official date for the launch of Shuttle Discovery on the ninth planned docking mission with the Russian Space Station
A neutron star, located 40,000 light years from Earth, is generating the most intense magnetic field yet observed in the Universe, according to an international team of astronomers led by scientists
A Greenpece contingent demonstrated outside the Canadian Consulate in Hamburg as a delegation of representatives from the British Columbia government and forest industry began a week long tour of
The Bihar Cabinet today slapped a ban on private practice by government doctors with immediate effect. The decision will affect 10,000 doctors working in the eight medical colleges and all the
When it comes to the latest trands, animals are not left behind. The new mantra at the Delhi zoo is alternative therapy. Ayurvedic treatment on an elderly white tigress, a sulphur-crested cuckatoo
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed owners of all mobile zoos in the country to surrender animals in their possession to the chief wildlife wardens of their respective states by July 21. The
Activists of an international campaign launched to stop the US-based RiceTec Inc's attempt to patent basmati are targeting an unusual person--the prince of an European principality. Prince Hans-Adam
The Andhra Pradesh government is in the process of evolving a comprehensive policy to promote the use of fly ash in construction activity. The government is looking in to the existing gaps with
Since time immemorial, Nepal, India and Bangladesh - three impoverished South Asian countries - have viewed the Ganga and its tributaries as perennial sources that sustain life.They warn that if
The upcoming world AIDS conference may be in for some grim news as problems emerge with the "cocktail" therapy of protease inhibitor drugs, pioneering AIDS researcher Robert Gallo said on Monday. The
