Owners of 9,002 vehicles were prosecuted after Calcutta Traffic Police checked 22,388 for auto-emission in the city between 13 and 20 December last year, the Calcutta High Court heard yesterday.
A campaign to champion the cause of some 250 million children worldwide who are forced to work for survival was launched in Manila when thousands of children from various parts of Asia held a march
A surprising new study reveals that chimpanzees have a structure in their brains that is similar to a so-called "language center" in human brains, challenging cherished notions of how language
Greenpeace released confidential report obtained by nuclear industry sources, presenting the actual figures for spent fuel and plutonium to be reprocessed in 1998. According to the document, a
Expert : It is not for scientists alone to make a decision on the application of biotechnologies which affect the public at large, says V Ramalingaswami, national research professor at the All India
Scientists in Wisconsin have mixed ear of pig and egg of cow and a series of other cross species combination into clone living embryos of pigs, rats, sheep and monkeys. The series of experiments,
The prestigious Agro-forestry Award for the year 1997 has been presented to Professor Prakash M Shingi , faculty members at the IIMA's Centre for Management in Agriculture and Professor S P
Exposure to toxins claim the life of one worker everyday in the ship breaking yards of Alang in Gujarat and India remains the favourite global dumping destination for hazardous wastes notwithstanding
Contrary to popular perception, shrimp farming is not eco-unfriendly, a three-man study by the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (Cife) at Mumbai has found .The study has recommended that
Vidyasagar Institute of Medical Health and NeuroSciences (VIMHANS ) has acquired a sophisticated Leksell Gamma Knife facility to treat vascular malformations and small tumours of the brain without
