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. …
Chennai: The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLVD3, the first Indian rocket to be powered by a totally indigenous cryogenic engine, will blast off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 4.27pm on Thursday. The 416-tonne vehicle will carry GSAT-4, a 2,218-kg communication satellite, to be put in an …
Weather records over the past decades suggest that summers in India have become hotter, but scientists today linked the extreme heat in eastern India to the flow of hot and dry winds from India
In a significant breakthrough with the potential for helping bio-pharmaceutical sector in the country, scientists at the Project Directorate on Poultry (PDP), Hyderabad, have mastered a technology to develop transgenic chickens
AUTO major General Motors is working towards developing frost tolerant varieties of jatropha for the US market. Having successfully tested bio-diesel made out of jatropha in India, GM has entered into a five-year partnership with Bhavnagar-based Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI) and the US Department of Energy …
Yields Of Rice, Other Cereals Could Be Hit New Delhi: In an ominous sign of climate change hitting home, India has seen accelerated warming in the past few decades and the temperature-rise pattern is now increasingly in line with global warming trends. The most up-to-date study of temperatures in India, …
India, China and Nepal are set to launch a joint conservation initiative for the Mount Kailash landscape. The conservation will be meant to tackle the issue of glacial melt, biodiversity conservation and, interestingly, also have a mandate for cultural conservation in the Himalayan region. This would be a first-of-its-kind trans-boundary …
Made By Smashing Calcium, Berkelium A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive …
The Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to do the country proud by launching its heavy geostationary communication satellite on 15 April using the indigenously built cryogenic engine, the technology for which was being denied to it since 1994. According to Mr K Radhakrishnan, chairman, Isro, only five countries …
Prasun Chatterjee, an Indian environmental engineering student whose research has contributed to a new way of detecting toxic lead and copper in water, has won one of the highest US research honours. Chatterjee, a research student at the University of Lehigh, Pennsylvania, will receive the 2010 C Ellen Gonter Environmental …
The 6.6 magnitude earthquake that occurred north of the Andaman Islands on March 30 is yet another confirmation that this particular region will continue to be source of severe earthquakes, says a leading Indian geologist. "This is what we had been worried about," Vineet Gahalaut at the National Geophysical Research …
CERN breaks its own record for high-energy collisions GENEVA: The world's largest atom smasher conducted its first experiments at conditions nearing those after the Big Bang, breaking its own record for high-energy collisions with proton beams crashing into each other on Tuesday at 3.5 times more force than ever before. …
London: Tomatoes can be made more sweeter by tweaking a gene that can also increase its yield by 60%, a new study has found. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York identified the gene that promotes
WASHINGTON: Since the surprise discovery last year of trace amounts of water on the moon, scientists have been redefining their concept of Earth's rocky neighbor. Now researchers say that the water on the Moon comes in three different flavors. This new announcement comes hot on the tail of a series …
Although there have been strong correlations between global warming and changes in the timing of events such as animal migration and flowering, it has been hard to show a cause-and-effect link. Now, for the first time, an international team, led by the University of Melbourne, has established such a causal …
