The Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr. Suresh Prabhu, has accused the developed nations of failing to meet their commitment to transfer resources and technologies to the developing
The plastic industry today condemned the Himachal Pradesh Government for its decision to impose goods tax at the rate of Rs 500 per tonne on all plastic--raw material as well as finished products in
Tweleve scientists have been selected for this year's Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards, the nation's highest awards in science. The names were announced by the Council of Scientific and Industrial
Dentists have recommended control over sweets, chocolates, aerated drinks, pan masalas and related products as these are causing a large number of oral diseases. The rate of dental problems in India
Breast cancer patients won a breakthrough new treatment late on Friday as the Food and Drug Administration approved Herceptin the first in what promises to be a wave of therapies attacting cancer at
A team of French and Russian scientists is about to leave for the Taimyr peninsula in northern Siberia to dig up the carcass of a mammoth preserved for some 50,000 years in the permanently frozen
India has one of the most rigorous environmental laws. With regard to powr projects they have always been applied with no latitude of any type. It is important to point out that unlike rest of the
The government has launched a new Council of Scientific and Indutrial Research programme to tap students' talent in science and technology.The new "CSIR programme on youth for leadership in Science"
A 44-year-old man died after taking the wonder sex drug 'Viagra' in the north-east, Dr. K. K. Aggarwal, vice-president of the Heart Care Foundation of India said.He said this was the first 'Viagra
With a view to containing the air and noise pollution associated with the Festival of Lights, the Lt. Governor of Delhi Mr. Vijai Kapoor, today ordered the implementation of the recommendations of a
