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. …
To kill a caterpillar a virus was given a scorpion's gene. It was to take on caterpillars that fed on cabbage. The virus escaped beyond the trial area and acquired a taste for other delicacies and happily slaughtered many other non-target species, many on the protected list. To make matters …
DOES a magazine like Down To Earth (DTE) have the right to critique the research of a "prestigious national institution" like the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute? NEERI, which belongs to the massive, government-funded CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) family does not appear to think that way. With …
india is completing a Rs 11.5-crore national research facility exclusively for polar science. Its first phase is taking shape at Goa. But experts who evaluated the country's Antarctic research programme want fewer junior scientists taking part, and suggest greater international cooperation. Goa's upcoming centre at the port town of Vasco …
a diet containing substantial amounts of vegetables and fruits can prevent about two million cancer cases in the world every year. The American Institute for Cancer Research ( aicr ) and the World Cancer Research Fund, Washington, usa, have announced the study recently. Paul Talalay and his colleagues at the …
On the process of being selected to the mission: Peter Rona of the department of geology and geophysics at the Rutgers Institute of Coastal and Marine Science, usa , came to the National Institute of Oceanography (nio), Goa, in October 1996, for an international symposium on the Indian Ocean. He …
scientists in Canada after analysing soils eaten by people in China, Zimbabwe and the us have concluded that eating soils have their own advantages. Susan Aufreiter of the University of Toronto and William Mahaney of York University, also in Toronto, used a technique called instrumental neutron activation analysis to get …
a new technique has been developed to kill the dengue causing Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes. Rays emitting from dried marigold flowers dipped in 100 per cent alcohol and ground into a fine paste can keep the deadly mosquitoes at bay. Arun Patnaik of the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, who has …
earthquakes do not follow predictions. A conclusion that has long been reached by other countries and only now accepted by Japan. The country's earthquake-prediction programme, the last in the world, with an annual budget of us $145 million is about to close down. A report accepted by the ministry of …
Researchers in Israel say that the tendency to abuse heroin arises partly from one's genes. According to them, a handful of genes playa role in a wide variety of addictions and that there is a link between a specific gene mutation and opiate addiction. Richard Ebstein of the Sarah Herzog …
POLYEMBRYONY is the strategy to split embryos to produce many identical off-springs. Eighteen animals are known to use this strategy as their method of reproduction. Biologists from the State University of New York say that as compared to asexual and normal sexual reproduction, polyembryony appears to offer the worst of …
SCIENTISTs at the MRc Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, claim to have unearthed a significant relationship between calcium present in our bodies and cellular responses. Calcium plays an important role in various physio -biological functions ranging from normal development to illness and cell death. Besides, the calcium atom …
EVOLUTION has moulded living creatures in such a manner that their ability to survive an reproduce is constantly improving. on a rough sense, one may say that given two populations, one of ancestors and a second of descendants, the descendants will carry a subset of ancestral genes: genes which contribute …
Research departments in the UK are likely to lose out to international competition due to a severe shortage of equipment required for critical experiments in areas of current research. Multinational companies have already started switching their research collaborations to other countries due to poor infrastructure in research departments here, according …
TEMPLES of higher technical learning in India have finally admitted some new converts in their hallowed corridors. The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), and the Federation of the Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, offered 6 Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) money and expertise to commercialise their research. In exchange, …
The Chilean sky is overcast with thunderheads of controversy. Lawyers, scientists and landowners are slugging it out with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) - an 8-state venture by Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy and Switzerland, to grab control of the site at Paranal in the Atacama desert, where …
To strengthen the link between industry and R&D; centres, a cess should be imposed on the pharmaceuticals industry whereby 2.5 per cent of its turnover is invested in research into new diseases. Also, use of laboratory facilities of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research by industry should be against …
PERHAPS the most interesting aspect of the speculation in the press about A P J Abdul Kalam Khan's continued association with India's missile development programme was the relatively high degree of public interest evoked by it. Other contemporary gossip about the country's scientific establishment had no such popular appeal. Almost …
THE draft new technology policy (NTP), which the government circulated in 1993 for feedback, lacks clarity, sets some inappropriate priorities and does not adequately address how goals can be achieved, says a recent survey. Some 600 scientists and engineers responded to questionnaires sent out by the Delhi-based National Institute of …
The proposal of the Holland-based company, Royal Van der Have, to set up a 100 per cent foreign-owned firm to conduct research in Indian seeds and develop new varieties has been rejected by India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) on grounds that the proposal was against the guidelines of the …
Nomination to the fellowship of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is generally considered by senior scientists as one of the better indications of recognition of their talent. That at least some of its functioning is controversial was brought home sharply just prior to its diamond jubilee celebrations in January: …
