Amit Kumar Ray, president of the Scientific Officers Association of the Geological Survey of India tells Down to Earth why SOA opposes the appointment of "non geologist" D B Dimri as GSI head. The 52 year old Ray refused to be photographed.
"Our first supercomputer, PARAM, represents the potential India has in high-tech areas, especially in terms of skilled, dynamic humanpower," says N Vittal, former secretary in the department of
A group of scientists is attempting to collect and store genetic material from various tribes on the verge of extinction in an effort to preserve their characteristics.
TWO US researchers say the cholera outbreak sweeping Bangladesh has assumed pandemic proportions and is part of a larger outbreak affecting India's eastern coast, reports The Lancet. The
The MNES has proposed the establishment of a solar thermal power plant near Jodhpur, even though such plants have proved commercially unviable in the past.
A group of American psychiatrists have proclaimed that some women suffer from a mental illness that usually begins a week before their menstrual period.
PAKISTAN'S JUNIPER forests -- the second largest in the world -- have been struck by the dwarf mistletoe, reveal Pakistani scientists. The mistletoe is a parasite that hampers the growth of the host,
