Overriding the fears of water and air pollution raised by environmentalists, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has announced plans to build 3 coal-fired plants in Trincomalee, Puttalam and Matara.
Heart surgeon K M Cherian has become the first doctor in India to perform heart surgery using a new technique known as trans-myocardial revascularisation (TMR). Performed previously only in the US,
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) at Pune recently unveiled its state-of-the-art Param-9000 parallel supercomputer. This machine is the latest to join C-DAC's celebrated Param
Friday namaz congregations in Pakistan may never be the same again. Alarmed by the rising incidence of AIDS, plans are afoot to have religious leaders deliver sermons on the disease. The government
Expectations of a bill to effect changes in the country's patent laws were belied when the Union government bypassed Parliament by issuing an executive ordinance on the matter. Changes in the
Scientists have discovered living fossils -- 23 adult and 16 juvenile historic (how old?) pine plants -- in an inaccessible region of the Wollemi National Park, Blue Mountain region, 200 km west of
The European Commission's (EC) attempt to devise a common carbon energy tax has fallen apart. At a meeting in Brussels in mid-December 1994, European environment ministers gave their assent to the
From March 1, 1995, the Union ministry of surface transport will register only those cars in the metropolitan cities that are equipped with catalytic convertors -- all in order to enforce the use of
In a breakthrough in Alzheimer's disease research, American doctors have converted a simple eye test into a powerful diagnostic instrument for the disease (Science, Vol 266, No 5187). A research
