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. …
MUMBAI: With lake levels not promising enough due to the rains largely playing truant, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will continue with its 10% water cut and review the situation at the civic standing committee meeting on Wednesday. The civic body also plans to rope in the Israeli-based Mekorot for …
With the monsoon below normal this year and particularly patchy across a few regions, Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra are exploring cloud-seeding options to bring rains. The India Meteorological Department has forecast a 23% deficient monsoon this year. Hindustan Zinc, a Vedanta Resources' subsidiary and the world’s largest manufacturer of zinc, …
Jairam Ramesh, Union Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister, on Thursday described the Railways as the world’s largest open toilet as his ministry signed an MoU with the Defence Research and Development Organisation to provide 1,000 bio digester toilets to 300 gram panchayats on a pilot basis in the …
Washington: US President Barack Obama has named four Indian-American scientists among 96 researchers as recipients of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The awards bestowed on Sridevi Vedula Sarma, Pawan Sinha, Parag A Pathak and Biju Parekkadan is the highest honour given by the US government …
Bhubaneswar: The State Government has sought No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chandipur for setting up the proposed 4,000-mw capacity Ultra Mega Power Project at Bijay Patna under Chandbali tehsil of Bhadrak district. According to official sources, despite the fact that the location of …
Melbourne: Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington believe they have discovered a planet right at Earth’s front door that may be capable of supporting human life. The planet is 22 light years away, previously thought to be 20 light years, and is …
Study Debunks Theory That Comets From Outer Solar System The Likely Source. Washington: Asteroids from the inner solar system may be the source of the majority of Earth’s water, a new study has claimed, contradicting the belief that most of our planet’s water originated in the outer solar system. The …
WASHINGTON, 12 JULY: US astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a fifth and tiniest moon yet orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The mini-moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and between 10 km and 25 km across. It is visible as a speck of light in …
New Delhi: To keep track of the development being carried out in NCR, the government has commissioned a study based on inputs from satellite imageries. The data, that will show the change in land use between 1999 and 2012, will be used for realistic planning in the region. It will …
New Delhi: Rice isn’t the diet villain as commonly thought, especially for diabetics. Two varieties of rice that are the staple of India’s middle class have now been found to have the lowest glycemic index (GI) — the measure of its ability to raise blood sugar levels after eating — …
Fixing of a time line for different phases of activities to be undertaken against each scheme of the World Bank-aided project under the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) was stressed at the steering committee meeting of ICZM here on Tuesday. Held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary BK Patnaik, it …
The Large Hadron Collider can throw up many surprises in the near future, making the next few years the most critical for physics research in a century. Read on Sudhir Vempati, assistant professor of physics at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, was among the hundreds of thousands …
A 22-year-old entrepreneur is bringing electricity to villages through a technology that produces and stores renewable energy on location, reports Peerzada Abrar. Twenty-two-year-old Yashraj Khaitan finds it difficult to explain to his parents what exactly he is doing in a remote village in Rajasthan. One year ago, as a fresh …
Astronomers: ‘Unseen Substance’ Spotted For First Time. Washington: For the first time, astronomers have discovered a giant string of invisible dark matter across the universe between a pair of galaxy clusters. The universe is thought to be filled with such strings of dark matter, a mysterious substance that cannot be …
Mad-cow, bird-flu or swine-flu - the world is more than familiar with “human-animal diseases”. A global study mapping these diseases, that jump species from animal hosts to humans, found that an “unlucky” 13 zoonoses were responsible for 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 million deaths per year. And …
Kolkata, 4 JULY: Methane gas generated from human waste could be used to light up bio-toilets developed by scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation. Acting on suggestions made by the Union minister for rural development, Mr Jairam Ramesh, the premier research agency is now working to provide lighting …
New Delhi, July 4: India’s imprints on the new subatomic particle announced by scientists today date back to the early 20th century when eminent physicist Satyendra Nath Bose developed mathematics to describe the behaviour of a family of particles, now collectively called the bosons. Dozens of scientists and their students …
In the euphoria at CERN was missing an Indian name, a Calcuttan whose work way back in the early 20th century had paved the way for the conceptualisation of the Higgs boson. The sub-atomic particle believed to be imparting mass and stability to the universe is partly named after Satyendra …
50-Yr Search For Higgs Boson Ends In Triumph Geneva: After a quest spanning nearly half a century, physicists on Wednesday said they had found a sub-atomic particle that may be the elusive Higgs boson, popularly known as the ‘God particle’, which is believed to confer mass on matter. Rousing cheers …
The National Institute for Inter-disciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) is offering a technology for clear extraction of banana fibre on a non-exclusive basis. NIIST is an affiliate of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) based here. PATENT SOUGHT The indigenously developed process know-how is for ‘clean extraction of …
