SOUTH Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) chairperson Khaleda Zia called for a movement for the empowerment of women. At a SAARC ministerial conference in Kathmandu, she said
Soon after the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar was freed of terrorists, several national dailies carried a photograph of an alleged terrorist peering out of a "detention centre" located at the Bhabha
Remember how Hansel and Gretel followed a trail of bread crumbs back home? Australian scientists have engineered an industrial robot that spits out camphor, which it can later detect and follow. The
THE INCREASE in high-risk sexual contacts between homosexual beach boys and tourists in Sri Lanka has worried the government. Though there have been only 22 cases of AIDS to date, the government's
In the first week of December, the Prime Minister's office gave the go-ahead for the establishment of the National Drug Authority (NDA) to oversee the formulation and supply of medicines in the
Human behaviour may, after all, be the upshot of molecular games. Scientists working with voles -- mouse-like creatures -- found that monogamy and parenting among these animals depended critically on
PAKISTAN will not abandon its nuclear programme until there is an agreement to make the entire region a nuclear weapons free zone, said the country's foreign minister Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali during a
The administrators of India's nuclear establishments have always maintained that safety standards in their plants are stringent and strictly observed and do not require evaluations by external
Prescription of antibiotics in Northern Ireland increased 207 per cent during 1988-91, say researchers at the University of Belfast. Drugs for heart patients and antacids also registered boosts of
HIT BY a severe recession, Japanese companies are reducing spending on research and development (R&D) and many firms are scaling down low-priority or long-term projects in favour of those that offer
