Faced with severe energy shortage, the government is pressing ahead with 12 major hydro power projects in a bid to speed up generation of electricity from water. The projects are all scheduled to be
The corporates and non-Governmental organisations (NGOs) should adopt villages and make full literacy possible, according to Dr. S.K. Somaiya, Chairman, Education Committee, FICCI.Inaugurating a
Dow Chemical Co., the world's fifth-largest chemicals company, entered alliances with Biosource Technologies Inc. and Illinois Foundation Seeds Inc. in a bid to catch up with rivals Monsanto Co. and
Scientists are working on methods to detect plant material containing the deadly terminator gene when it comes to India. They are fully aware of the potential risks of this gene technology and are
UNDP :A child born in the US, France or Britain this year will consume, waste and pollute more in a lifetime than 50 children in developing nations, according to a UN report released on Wednesday.
The U.S. State Department has cast doubt on North Korea's claim that the object it launched on August 31 over Japan was a satellite and not a missile. At the time of the launch, U.S. agencies
Russian scientists have developed a filling agent for biofilters in wastewater purification facilities. Micro-organisams are filtered through porous ceramic assemblies of claydite clay, which process
India's pre-occupation with raising its economic growth rate irrespective of the ecological viability of the strategies pursued may cost the country more than $10 billion a year. This staggering
The Kani tribals in Kerala, who parted with their traditional healing knowledge to the government-owned Tropical Botanicl Gardens and Research Institute (TBGRI) under an agreement protecting their
Noted social worker and winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Anna Hazare was today sentenced to a three-month simple imprisonment by the Metropolitan Court at Girgaum in connection with a defamation
