Pig-heart doctor for truth campaign
With a report by the Central reearch and Forensic Laboratory confirming that he had indeed conducted xenotransplantation of a pig heart into a human being, Dr Dhani Ram Baruah has decided to "launch
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Haryana dissolves Pollution Control Board
The Haryana Government has dissolved the State Pollution Control Board, ending the three-year tenure of its Chairman, Mr R A Goel, even before he completed one year in office. Mr Goel , who is a
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Moves on to protect Darjeeling tea from pirates
After facing problems on the basmati front, the government has decided to take pre-emptive measures to protect another important Indian product--Darjeeling tea.
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Getting the pests without burning a hole in the pocket
Expensive chemical pesticides may become a thing of the past with the use of low-cost conventional methods to control plant diseases, thanks to the agriculture ministry.
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Rajasthan hatcheries fail to show results
The 13 hatcheries made for producing fish seeds for ponds in Rajasthan have become white elephants for the state government and are not yielding seeds to their minimum capacity for the past 20 years.
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'Green Delhi' drive an exercise in futility
If the Capital's civic agencies had been sincere in their endeavours to green the city in various drives since 1950, about 470 square kilometres would already have been under forest cover on 2
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L-G pollution line irks city's citizens
Lieutenant-governor Vijai Kapoor's recent statement that "pollution in Delhi is a very overstated problem", has incurred the wrath of many prominent citizens of the city, who along with the Centre
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Forest Act to be simplified
The procedural bottlenecks coming in the way of speedy environmental clearances to industrial projects on account of the restrictive provisions of the Forest conservation Act of 1980 are proposed to
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Public hearing urged on car project
Civic, a NGO, has urged the Karnataka State Government and Toyota-Kirloskar to hold an environmental public hearing for the Toyota-Kirloskar car factory coming up at Bidadi.In a press release, Civic
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New air for a new age
Oxygen bars have already breathed new life into the health scene in the U.S. and now they look set for Southeast Asia. Some doctors believe that the apparent benefits of oxygen bars are due to the
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Weather eye at the airport
Hong Kong's new international airport is aeronautically compromised. The runways lie in the shadow of Lantau Island, with its twin peaks that jut nearly 1,000 metres out of the sea. The terrain
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Gas powered PCs
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems developed a miniature fuel cell that can run a portable PC for 10 hours, more than three times as long as conventional batteries. The
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New drug mix may simplify HIV therapy
Researchers at the 12th World AIDS Conference unveiled a surprisingly poweful and easy-to-use combination drug therapy that may change the way HIV infections are treated. The new therapy would slash
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This is a job for Brazil
Amazon is our greatest forest, greatest wilderness, greatest repository of biological diversity and the greatest of environmental icons. And the Amazon's big problems - fires, reckless
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Is AIDS forever?
Experts now agree that a vaccine is our only hope of stopping AIDS. The quest to develop one is gaining momentum : a
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India tops in HIV cases
UNAIDS and WHO have highlighted that India topped the league of nations in the number of HIV-infected cases, with the country estimated to account for 4 million patients, out of the total global
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Greenpeace reveals plutonium company's flawed efforts to capture radioactive particles
Greenpeace revealed that Cogema, the operator of the state-owned La Hague reprocessing plant, has installed inadequate equipment off the plant's discharge pipe, 30 meters under the sea, in a flawed
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Cell transplant may help undo effects of stroke
Doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said they have performed the first transplant of human nerve cells into a patient's brain in an effort to reverse paralysis and other effects of
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More Floridans fleeing fires
Fire fighters continued to battle against wildfires that have driven more than 30,000 people from their homes, closed 140 miles of interstate highway and destroyed dozens of homes and businesses. In
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The next killer virus
The number of cases affected by a deadly new virus has risen to more than 50,000 in Taiwan and the death toll to at least 50, mostly infants and children under the age of 5. The controversy has been