Despite the deaths of 45 baby rats aboard space shuttle Columbia scientists say they can salvage brain development studies. Scientists say the number of dead is five times more than
More than 20 leading global oil companies are locked in a fierce contest for bidding rights to what is being touted as the largest and most promising gas reserves finds in recent years, in offshore
Minister of State for Welfare Maneka Gandhi has called for uniform laws for the entire country, including Kashmir , to ensure effective control of illegal trade in wildlife
Heavy flooding in eastern Afghanistan has killed 35 people with the west and centre of the war-torn country also badly hit by heavy spring rains, official sources and aid workers said on
Those suffering from acidity and peptic ulcers now have the option of a painless surgical correction, thanks to the revolutionary technique of minimally invasive surgery of the upper
The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) for the National Capital Region has called upon the city's hospitals to give it the action taken reports on the safe handling of hospital waste. At
The Yamuna river, Rs 400 crore spent on cleaning it notwithstanding, is highly polluted between Delhi and Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, the Delhi High Court was informed today. The Central government
In November, the earth's atmosphere will be hit with the most severe meteor shower in 33 years, a bombardment of debris that could damage or destroy some of the nearly 500 satellites that provide
The Wildlife Department of West Bengal has decided to introduce identity cards for all the rhinoceroses living in the state's Jaldapa reserve forest and Garumara national parks. Niroj Singhal,
Sewage containing toxic metals discharged everyday from Calcutta towards the Sunderbans might pose a threat to the ecosystem of the world's only mangrove tigerland, environment officials said. The
