Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) has commenced the supply of natural gas to industrial units in Firozabad, near Agra. This forms part of the 10 point programme announced by the government to save
The World Wide Fund for Nature has decided to support 10 more protected areas in the country in 1998 while entering the second year of its three-year tiger conservation programme. Protected areas
Twenty-five years after men last roamed the moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) is returning with a little robot named Prospector. Diminutive as it is and cheap, too,
A central law on energy funding for industries is likely to be tabled in Parliament soon, Dr Bhaskar Natarajan , Director, Energy Management Centre (EMC), has said. He said drafts had already been
An asbestos personnel -injury trust has sued major cigarette makers, claiming that tobacco companies should be held liable for the healthcare costs for asbestos workers who suffer from
AIIMS with its recently established Asian Indian Donor Marrow Registry of Voluntary Donors maintains a record of more than 2000 Indian members. AIDMR has liaison with the American National Marrow
Dr N. K. Mehra, professor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has been elected president of the Australian and South Asian Tissue Typing Association during its recent conference held in
Lorillard Tobacco Co has paid more than $1.5 million to the family of a California smoker who died of cancer, the first time a US cigarette maker has ever paid a smoking related personal injury
Soyabean production in the country can be doubled by 2002 , the terminal year, of the Ninth Plan by bringing over nine million hectares of "fallow" land under cultivation. "By using short-duration
Here are some of the things that the Yangtze River dolphin is not:It is not black and white and furry. It does not sit in adorable poses and chew on bamboo shoots. It is not the focus of a worldwide
