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. …
Cape Canaveral (Florida): Nasa is finding it is not just mechanical glitches that make the International Space Station a tough place to operate. Engineers trouble-shooting a problem with the station
Global human population has been expanding exponentially, from 2.5 billion in 1950 to ~6 billion in 2000, and is likely to reach 10 billion by 2050, and thus the demand for natural resources is significantly increasing. It has resulted in rapid, extensive and persistent changes in earth ecosystems, more in …
Anil Kakodkar, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, on Thursday said the development of thorium-based energy would be the next challenge before the country to meet its growing power requirement. Addressing the energy session at the Indian Science Congress, Kakodkar said thorium as a source of energy was being …
Research on to minimise harmful effects Naveen S Garewal Tribune News Service Chandigarh, January 1 Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in identifying reasons for the rapid spread of cancer in the state. Having identified arsenic in water as one of the major causes for abnormal …
BHUBANESWAR: As Orissa gears up for Olive Ridley turtles to mate and nest this season, the spate of missile testings by the DRDO has the Wildlife Wing watching it very closely. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted tests in the recent past and going by its schedule, it …
Carboxytherapy Just Takes A Few Minutes London: Carbon dioxide, the natural gas which is blamed for global warming, may now help one shed those extra flab. Scientists at the University of Siena in Italy have claimed to have developed an injection of CO
New information on how plants breathe may help scientists engineer plants that require less water, according to a report published this month in Nature Cell Biology. While it has been known for half a century that a plant
Ecosystems Must Move By 1/4 Mile A Yr To Survive Paris: Land ecosystems will have to move hundreds of metres each year in order to cope with global warming, according to a letter published in the journal Nature. On average, ecosystems will need to shift 420 metres (1/4 mile) per …
CUTTACK: Even as the recent Tendulkar Committee report labels Orissa as the poorest state with over 57 per cent of the population bracketed in the poor sections and deprived of adequate calorie intake, the focus should be on maximising nutrient absorption from the available food. While the Government has to …
The government has decided to set up two institutes to deal with the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said the government was in the process of setting up the National Institute on Biotic Stress Management and Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology under the Indian …
An international team of physicists working in the bottom of an old iron mine in Minnesota said on Thursday that they might have registered the first faint hints of a ghostly sea of subatomic particles known as dark matter long thought to permeate the cosmos. The particles showed as two …
Paris: Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with water, according to a study published in the science journal Nature. The so-called
Washington: A bottle of spoiled wine could help cut your power bills, as American and Indian scientists have come up with a new technology that generates electricity by using the waste from improper fermentation. According to the scientists, the technology could provide a new and cost effective way to clean …
Soon, remote villages and small towns in rural India as well as the Australian outback could be powered by self-sufficient sustainable energy-based mini-grids. Australia
BHUBANESWAR: Is desertification process in Orissa already on? The answer appears to be yes if one goes by the latest report of Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad that has bracketed Orissa among top five States facing
VELLORE: Calling on engineers to come up with technologies which will aid in the development of a fleet of robots for underwater exploration, Mohd Rizal Arshad, Director of the Underwater Robotics Research Group, at Universiti Sains, Malaysia, on Tuesday said engineering must act as a tool for oceanographers to study …
