The government and the NGOs of Bangladesh are engaged in a war of words over the relevance of their respective roles in the nation's development programmes. Finance minister Saifur Rehman's diatribe
Geologists have found in Mexico the filssil remains of a multicellular organism which is believed to have lived about 15 million years before the oldest known. The organism, resembling
A British scientist, Martin Dicks, claims to have developed 'intelligent' road studs that can warn motorists of poor driving conditions by emitting different coloured flashes of light (New
Finding itself without any resources, the wasteland development department of the reconstituted ministry of rural areas and employment (previously the ministry of rural development) has hit upon an
An American company, Solar Power International, Inc. has developed a solar lawn mower that is pollution- free. A conventional gasoline-powered lawn mower, on the other hand, causies more
The international community may agree to do without chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) -- the chemicals identified as being primarily responsible for the depletion of the earth's ozone shield -- but the
Two UK-based companies, Thorn EMI Electronics and McLennan Marine, have developed a night surveillance system that can enable the coastguards to spot a 20 metre boat at a range of 7.5 kin or a
