Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
In this paper, we address the issues of shortage and maldistribution of health personnel in southeast Asia in the context of the international trade in health services. Although there is no shortage of health workers in the region overall, when analysed separately, five low-income countries have some deficit. All countries …
Plastic bottles are deadly for your brain Bisphenol A Found To Impair Learning & Memory Toronto: Plastic containers may be deadly for your brain. Canadian researchers have found that Bisphenol A (BPA), the chemical used in making plastic containers, might be responsible for impairing many brain functions such as learning …
Travelling by air can affect one's memory, shows a recent study conducted by Kwangwook Cho, researcher at the University of Bristol, UK . After conducting tests on 20 female flight attendants using the magnetic resonance imaging technique, Cho found that the right lobe of their brain was smaller than usual. …
Brained by the Net Trapping talent has been an oft-heard and oftener-enacted phenomenon, and there are myriad and imaginative ways of doing it. Little money in your pocket and the heavy task of hunting for a job is certainly not the modern idea about struggle in life. Earlier, the passport …
The 5 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are easily among the most pampered of this country's academic institutions. Used to fund-guzzling in the name of quality technological education, it is suspicious of recent government attempts to force them to raise a portion of their funding through contracts with industry. This …
A department of science and technology-sponsored study on the brain drain from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), conducted by the University Grants Commission (UGC), found that a lack of a national perspective and a curriculum restricted from exposing students to the needs of the Indian industry are mainly responsible …
A RS 10-crore aid package from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to help involve Indian expatriate scientists in leading areas of research has buoyed the sagging spirits of science administrators faced with the exodus of Indian scientists to greener pastures abroad. The aid comes in the wake of a …
What is your main area of research ? I have been working in the US since 1967. My main scientific interest lies in oncogenes -- genes that cause certain cells in the body to become cancerous -- and in gene therapy. Gene therapy is an exciting new area of research …
