More bites for India!
Though eco friendly alternatives are available, the government s malaria control programme banks heavily on use of hazardous chemicals
Though eco friendly alternatives are available, the government s malaria control programme banks heavily on use of hazardous chemicals
If caught, it could spell trouble for the Standard Model of particle physics; although success has eluded most scientists, a group of relentless researchers refuse to give up the search for a free quark
There is immense promise in it. It is rechargeable, non toxic and flexible. It is the new plastic battery
A research group has measured the electric resistance of wires with a single xenon atom and two xenon atoms in series; the results call for some revision in theory
TREMOR SENSORS: Last year's earthquake in Kobe, Japan, has triggered off a spate of earthquake-related lighting equipments. An emergency fight by Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. Japan's largest
Urban air pollution is an emerging threat to Bhutan s uncontaminated air
An experiment to tap the power of outer cosmos fails as the link cable breaks
GREEN CHILL: Indian refrigerators I would go green, thanks to Godrej GE Appliances andVoltas Allwyn deciding to use eco-frieQdly elements instead of the ozone-d(pleting chlo, rofluorocarbons
Have you been undergoing bouts of lethargy at work or at home lately? Do you feel your memory has started playing tricks with you? Are you getting constant headaches, nausea, eye-throat-nose
Skin diseases and stomach ailments afflict most of the people living around a tannery area in Kanpur one of the fallout of the failure of the Ganga Action Plan initiated eight years ago
AIR POWER: Sita Enterprises Ltd, a Mumbai-based export and consultancy company, is all set to breeze into the wind and hydel power sector. The company is planning to construct a hydel power
A flicker of brain signals received by a 'mind switch' and 10, disabled people can do a lot of handy work!
THROUGHOUT the developed world today, there is a determined effort to clean up the air, and railways are being pushed as the most convenient, eco-friendly, cheap, fast and comfortable mode of
TRACKING DOWN TUMOURS: Cancer detection will be much easier with the help of a cancer monitoring device developed by the Bangalore-based Defence Bio-Engineering and Electro-Medical
Scientists are busy looking for a compound which they say is going to replace diamond as the hardest substance
TO USHER in new technology and additional investment, and promote exports, Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) is advocated by several experts. All DFI'S opponents argue that multinational companies
• India was one of the signatories to the draft international convention on liability and compensation for damages in connection with the carriage of hazardous and rundous substances by sea,
They may survive the drought. But they cannot survive government policies. When people have to abandon their livestock, they are reduced to misery, as is happening in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Because India s rural economy is built around livestock, which ca
What, really, is the destination of the Indian Railways (IR)? Is it capable of meeting the growing demands? What is the reason behind the pathological dependence on import of high-cost technology? Is electrification the answer? G K KHARE, chairperson, Rai
The <font class="UCASE">uk </font> government has a tough choice. In the next decade-and-a half decade, almost all of the country's 14 nuclear stations will have outlived their utility. Not a very welcome proposition in a country where nuclear power generates about 22 per cent of the electricity, annually. Moreover, the share of renewables in <font class="UCASE">uk'</font> s energy supply has not grown desirably, while demand for energy is on the rise.