The TB control programme has failed, and India is sitting on a virtual time bomb as it is all set to achieve the dubious distinction of having the highest number of tuberculosis and HIV patients by
Four years ago, the Delhi Water Supply and Sewage Undertaking had submitted an action plan with the Trans-Yamuna Area Development Board, to rationalise the water supply system in the area. However,
It is difficult to believe that this temple city was a health resort, just two and half decades ago. With mercury touching 40 plus in day time people at any street corner can be heard saying that
The Assam Irrigation Minister, Mr. Abdul Muhib Majumdar, has exhorted scientists and technocrats to prepare themselves to face a water crisis in the country in the years to come. Addresssing the 13th
Scientists have allayed fears over the potential health hazard of flyash wastes from Delhi Vidyut Board's power plants saying Indian ash contains negligible amounts of toxic chemicals. Apollo
The high-level team of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), headed by the former Union Agriculture Minister, Mr. Balram Jakhar, to study the phenomena of suicide by farmers in Karnataka and
Germany favours making scientific and technological cooperation a "central pillar" of Agenda 2000, a political project that is to define Indo-German relations for the year 2000 and beyond, according
With the help of a satellite, Indian nature lovers have mapped out 470 reserves for wildlife to ensure their proper development. These digitised maps, for instance, show the distribution of
BAT Industries, the tobacco and insurance group, has abadoned hopes of reviving last year's proposed deal between the US tobacco industry and state attorneys general to settle tobacco
Lawrence Carter, an electrical engineer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, has developed a way of detecting land mines that depends not on what they contain, but on what they do not
