The viability of storing solar power using batteries and using the same power during peak times is increasing due to declining battery prices, said Raj Pratap Singh, Chairman, Uttar Pradesh Electricity
The rain-starved US soyabean crop will be the smallest in seven years, the Government said, making a large South American harvest vital to assuring adequate global supplies of the oilseed widely used
The smallpox vaccine may help protect people against the AIDS virus, US researchers said. A team at Virginia's George Mason University said they had shown, in lab dishes, that blood cells from people
The Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation, that ended on Sunday, failed to tell the world in clear terms that work on the Doha Round
With the Delhi Metro set to become a major election issue, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Chairman and senior BJP leader, Mr Madan Lal Khurana, on Monday announced that the second section of
The flood situation in Bihar continued to remain grim with major rivers in full spate while the natural calamity claimed 162 lives in the state so
The Uttar Pradesh government declared 20 districts as flood affected in the state and has sought financial aid from the centre for the relief works. The government will send a detailed report to the
After five consecutive months of double-digit sales (following the excise cut in the Union Budget), car sales climbed a modest 6.7% in August 2003. While Hyundai and Tata Motors saw an improved
The collapse of world trade talks in Mexico is disappointing for big cane sugar producers who had been looking for a new deal as part of farm trade reforms, industry sources said. Instead of coming
China is harvesting supersize vegetables with seeds and seedlings sent up in space in retrievable rockets, media reports have said. At a dusty farm, volley-ball-sized eggplants - enough to feed a
A shiploads of Australian sheep stranded in the Persian Gulf for almost six weeks after being rejected by Saudi Arabia is being offered for free to stop an escalation of protests by animal rights
