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Flash floods have left a desolate trail from Punjab to Bangladesh and the toll has been especially severe in Nepal, where raging torrents have isolated the Capital

The Nuer tribals of Sudan settled their disputes in more organised and effective a manner than modern societies

Promotion of water guzzling crops like rice is leading to maximum utilisation of river waters in India. The Cauvery dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is probably the first of such problems that lie ahead

Tissue taken from aborted foetuses and implanted into the bodies of patients suffering from several incurable diseases has shown encouraging results

With every monsoon, the extent of floods in the country and its ensuing misery increases. Is this suffering largely self inflicted?

Even as annual monsoon floods devastate Bangladesh, a plan formulated by the World Bank to prevent flooding is bogged down in controversy

NCSTC Network, a voluntary organisation, links and helps smaller organisations working to demystify science for the masses and dispelling blind belief in miracles wrought by godmen

For geological reasons, Tamil Nadu has always had the lion's share of the Cauvery waters. But when Karnataka built the Krishnarajasagara dam, it secured the advantage

Scientists have hit on a gene that decides exactly where internal organs will be positioned in the body of a mouse

Twenty five scientists met the Prime Minister recently and appraised him of the issues confronting scientific research in India