Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
With several parts of the country already reeling under drought, scientists in the United States have found that groundwater levels in North Indian cities, including Delhi, are declining by as much as a foot per year over the past decade. Scientists, with the help of NASA satellite data, have found …
CUTTACK: With pest and disease infestation becoming a major hindrant in agricultural productivity and use of pesticides and insecticides arousing environmental and health concerns, the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) here is soon going to come out with a special package on pest management for farmers using natural and biological …
London: Astronomers have discovered the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction to the spin of its star. A team of scientists say the planet appears to have been the victim of a game of planetary billiards, flung into its unusual orbit by a close encounter with a
Melbourne: Australian birds have shrunk over the past century because of global warming, scientists have found. A similar shrinking effect was recently documented in Scottish sheep. Using museum specimens, researchers measured the size of eight bird species and discovered they were getting smaller in an apparent response to climate change. …
Dhandbad, Aug. 10: A study conducted by the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research on the effects of mining on man-elephant conflicts has found that community participation linked to issues of tusker conservation can lead to enormous benefits for the local population. Having earned a name for its wide-range …
Twenty-five years after it established Dakshin Gangotri, the first permanent research station in the South Polar region, India is all set to build the third such centre in Antarctica to take up cutting-edge research in various fields. The new station, tentatively named Bharti, is scheduled to be operational by 2012, …
Scientists have shown that electrons, which are indivisible in isolation, can divide into two new particles called spinons and a holons when crowded into in a narrow wire. Reporting on their work in Science, the researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham explained that while single electrons seem to …
Chicago: Doomsday predicters can take some solace. Fears that a hurtling ball of fire can ravage the Earth has been laid to rest as a new study says comets probably won
London: A team of Chinese scientists is planning to conduct a once-in-acentury experiment on July 22, the day of the total solar eclipse, which would test the controversial theory that gravity drops slightly during a total eclipse. According to a report in New Scientist, geophysicists from the Chinese Academy of …
Bids For Patent On System For Lowering Ocean Temperatures To Slow Down Storms Tony Allen-Mills Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, is backing inventors and climate scientists who claim to have devised a technique for diminishing the power of hurricanes. Gates was named last week among a group of weather …
Washington: There are still many secrets waiting to be gleaned from Moon rocks collected by Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago. Randy Korotev, of Washington University-St Louis, has studied lunar samples and their chemical compositions since he was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. He
In an attempt to prevent Aedes mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya, a new technology developed by the Oxford University will be lab-tested in the country to check the breeding of the vectors following a green signal from the Union Government. Scientists at Oxford University and its offshoot company Oxitec …
BHUBANESWAR: The coastal zone of Paradip is undergoing rapid geographical changes. The shoreline and the beach area in the zone have sustained major shifts in characteristics in the past three decades. The shoreline of Paradip has increased by about 7.26 km while the beach area was diminished by a good …
The space programme has got a Rs 4,959 crore boost, the bulk of it going to fund research in the manned mission programme, cryogenic engines, PSLV and GSLV and space capsule recovery. The nearly 40% hike from Rs 3,499 crore last year to Rs 4,959 crore in 2009 is one …
