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. …
Scientists Are Trying To Enable Humanity’s First Encounter With Alien Life Right Here On Earth San Diego: In a laboratory perched on the edge of the continent, researchers are trying to construct ‘Life As We Don’t Know It’ in a thimbleful of liquid. Generations of scientists and science fiction fans …
Neighbouring Manali Witnesses Similar Meltdown, Experts Blame Global Warming Manali: Within two months of record snowfall on Rohtang pass, almost all the snow has melted. Initially, it was expected that tourists could see the snow till August. By the last week of June, though, the snow melted away. Experts blamed …
Three scientists from the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune, Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni, Dattatraya Dethe and Rahul Banerjee, have been selected for the Young Scientist Award 2011, instituted by the Council for Industrial and Scientific Research (CSIR). The award carries a cash prize and a citation and will be presented …
A Subba Rao, Director and his associate K Sammi Reddy, Principal Scientist, Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, jointly conferred prestigious 'Hari Om Ashram Trust Award 2008-09'. They received a cash award of `1,00,000 and a citation from Union Minister of Agriculture Sharad Pawar on July 16, 2011 at New …
Addressing a longstanding demand of residents of plotted areas, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Wednesday announced that the draft guidelines for floor-wise sanction and regularisation of building plans in residential areas have been posted online. The civic agency has sought comments from public regarding the guidelines and has …
Vijayan summarizes the problems faced with respect to funding of research. He suggests how grant system could be improved to achieve better quality in research. The manner in which grant applications are handled and funds are released is only one dimension (albeit a major one); there are other aspects to …
The pharmaceutical industry is seeking stronger ties with academia in a bid to speed up drug development. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110622/pdf/474433a.pdf
Setting a precedent, the tiny island of Lakshadweep is all set to become the first town in the country to install nearly 12,000 ecofriendly toilets in its buildings
Dona Paula (Goa): India is getting ready to safeguard its 7000-km coastline from invasive alien species. The seemingly harmless cargo ships coming from foreign shores can bring with them harmful organisms and even radioactive material that can have deleterious effect on the country
LONDON: Japanese scientists have unveiled plans to turn the moon into a gigantic mirrorball manned by robots to provide all the Earth's energy needs. The ambitious project would result in 13,000 terawatts of continuous solar energy being transmitted back to receiving stations on Earth, either by laser or microwave. The …
Tons of toxic wastes strewn in and around Union Carbide factory ever since the happening of industrial disaster can be disposed of by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO). It is believed that the Organisation can easily destroy the waste materials without posing any threat to environment. Union Minister …
Several NGOs working for the cause of the Bhopal gas victims on Wednesday called for immediate scrapping of the recommendations of the Peer Review Committee set up for remediation of toxic contamination in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in the state capital and demanded reconstitution of this committee …
Scientists Discover Bacteria That Let Off Tiny Electrical Charges; May Also Be Used To Clean Up N-Disasters Oslo: Microbes may be harnessed more easily to generate energy after a finding about how they naturally let off tiny electrical charges, scientists said on Monday. The bacteria, found to have microscopic
Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir are emerging as the new hotspots of declining sex ratio in India, according to a recent study published in reputed journal The Lancet. According to the study, about 95 per cent of districts in Maharashtra and Rajasthan have witnessed further decline in sex ratio, …
New Delhi Jairam Ramesh-led ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has tied up with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) to set up a National Centre for Marine Biodiversity in Jamnagar, the first research institute in the public private partnership (PPP) mode.
The Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, and Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, Srikumar Banerjee, on Friday denied suggestions that the design of the nuclear power reactors proposed to be installed at Jaitapur was untested. In an interactive session at the National Physical Laboratory here, he contended that the reactors were based …
- Two drought & waterlogging-resistant varieties to be released in Nov. Jorhat, May 19: The Tocklai Experimental Station of the Tea Research Association will release two new tea clones during the scheduled World Tea Congress to be held here in November.
The intensity of solar storms is expected to peak in 2013 and may devastate critical infrastructure like satellite communications, navigation systems and electrical transmission equipment, a top scientist has warned. Kathryn Sullivan, assistant secretary of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said countries should prepare for
