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Central Asian states wrangle over water use, even as the world's 4th largest inland waterbody dries up

For the denizens of Calcutta, Durga Puja is a time for noisy celebrations. But this year in mid-October, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (wbpcb), with the help of 10 non-governmental

An unusual power generator that will be a net consumer of power is planned near New York City to ease the situation during peak demand periods

The land of proletarian bicycles might soon be taken over by cars, which will bring in their wake the problems of pollution and dwindling energy supplies

Medical experts have warned that a rat borne disease, leptospirosis, which has already claimed 14 lives in Bulsar district in Gujarat, may spread to other parts of the country and rapped the

Alchemists have succeeded in fashioning the high-tech version of the Philosopher's Stone: they can now make diamond films out of soot and a gas named argon. Chemist Dieter M Gruen's magic recipe:

An elated India is elected chairpersons of the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors and the organisation's member nations agree to strengthen security around nuclear plants

For centuries, humans have collected honey and put it to various uses, from a sweetener making alcohol

The Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) is alarmed at what it believes is the possibility of the vital pressure Control room, tubes in Indian nuclear reactors, based on their Canadian Deuterium

Channels and valleys observed on the Martian surface and meteorites of Martian origin indicate that once there might have been water on the planet