Browning with age, its spires slowly rusting, the old Powerine oil refinery in Santa Fe Springs, California sits dormant after decades of bellowing smoke so thick that residents complained it took
Government spending on flood defences in UK will have to increase significantly adequately to protect thousands of homes at threat this winter, according to a report published yesterday by the
Ten years after the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification was issued, the question of how to develop the 300-odd-km Karnataka coastline cropped up once again at a one-day symposium conducted
An implanted mechanical pump that assists a failing heart, but does not replace it, can significantly prolong the lives of people who are dying of heart disease, according to a landmark study
Having lost he battle for Basmati patent, the government has gone on an overdrive to protect other Indian products which have a large export market, Kashmiri carpets, Alphonso mangoes and Darjeeling
Scientists at the bio-informatics division of Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, have developed a range of Internet enabled software tools to help control the spread of the anopheles
Novartis AG, seeking to build on the remarkable early success of its cancer drug Gleevec, outlined a pipeline of drug compounds now in clinical development that it hopes will make it an oncology
Up to 350 people are feared dead after a devastating tropical storm ripped through the Philippines, officials said yesterday. At least 115 bodies have been recovered in four provinces, while 234
The Rajasthan government decided to enforce the two-child norm in the state from June 1, 2002, barring its employees from having a third child.
A new international agreement to use plantgenes to help guarantee future world food supplies was hailed by Jacques Diouf, director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christie Whitman has announced that the arsenic standard in drinking water will actually be set at 10 parts per billion (ppb), the level set by
There is a variety of cotton that can fight off bollworm, has no apparent side-effects and has cleared trials. It goes by the name of Bt Cotton, and the Government doesn't want it. Across the cotton
The state government plans to strengthen immunisation services in the next five years by providing free hepatitis B vaccine to all newborn babies. The project will be carried in a phased manner by
Though the Chennai Corporation has now taken up intensive dengue awareness campaign, it is clearly a belated effort considering that the civic body received the warning about a possible outbreak in
The Rs 558-crore Wockhardt announced that its research team had discovered a new anti-bacterial drug. Wockhardt's chairman and managing director Habil F Khorakiwala said the company had applied to
Dengue has claimed another life in Delhi with this the total number of deaths due to the disease has risen to three. According to the municipal health officer, Municipal health officer, Municipal
Scientists fear genetically modified (GM) crops, already under attack for allegedly creating "mutant" food, could also create plants that are resistant to herbicides and insects. GM herbicide-and
One of the world's biggest tobacco companies aims to make billions of dollars from diseases caused by cigarettes through deals with biotech companies for exclusive rights to future lung cancer
Negotiators all but clinched a deal today that would give developing countries greater access to cut- price drugs to fight epidemics, defusing the most inflammatory dispute between rich and poor
A famine-like situation hit northern region of Bangladesh throwing over 20 lakh poor and labourer section of the people into great miseries.
