As health workers here clean up the last, decaying remains of 1.4 million chickens slaughtered to halt the spread of a new flu strain, a troubling question remains: Has the feared virus infected
An international seminar on "Cretaceous Geology System,"is being organised by the ONGC at Chennai from January 6-8. Cretaceous systems are rock formations 65 million to 135 million years old. These
With endangered Olive Ridley turtles mating in the sea off Gahirmatha coast and their mass nesting likely to begin soon, forest officials and coast guards have stepped up their drive against illegal
India will receive a 200 million dollar grant from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for aiding its Ninth Plan objectives on infrastructure, technology and
Dr Gerhard Fischer, a German social scientist, who dedicated his life in rehabilitating lepers and polio patients, was on Monday awarded the prestigious Gandhi Peace Prize for 1997 by President K.R.
Dutch scientists have succeeded for the first time in proving the harmful effect of ultra-violet light on skin cells. Until recently all that scientists were able to do was to measure damage to
At least 5,000 children in the age group of one to six years will be tested, in a project to study the lead toxicity in the blood of children in the age group of 1-6 years, launched today at the All
A fuel-efficient bio-mass gas stove that works on the principle of gasification, will be released by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) on January 8, Prof. A. Abdul Kareem, Vice
The Narmada Bachao Andolan has decided to stop construction work on the Maheshwar dam project at Mandleshwar in Kahargone district of Madhya Pradesh on January
Even as the residents of certain slum colonies inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park were picking up the pieces of their "illegally" demolished homes, the government has dealt them another severe blow:
