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. …
- Institute to foray into production from March to make medicines available at affordable prices The CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology, which has so far concentrated on research, has decided to foray into production from March with the manufacture of two herbal medicines. Director P.G. Rao said the …
It has taken Arjun Munda over four and a half months to persuade the mines and geology department to check illegal mining, albeit in a half-hearted manner. The geology wing of the department today claimed that it has begun working on Geographical Information System (GIS) survey/mapping of areas to detect …
These Cosmic Bodies Don’t Orbit Any Star, Belong To A Whole New Class Of Alien World Washington: Thousands of rogue alien planets may be rambling through space in our Milky Way galaxy, instead of being locked in orbit around a star, says a new study. According to researchers at the …
At the Indian Science Congress last month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged to hike R&D; expenditures from around $3 billion last year to $8 billion in 2017. The windfall is meant to turbocharge initiatives to create elite research institutions, bring expatriate Indian scientists home, enrich science education, and equip smart …
The past history of organic life can be the key to the future, said ex-head of Geology Department, University of Jammu, Prof SK Shah while delivering the SP Nautiyal Memorial Lecture at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology on Thursday. Delivering his talk on bio-events and climate change, Prof Shah …
CUTTACK: Assistant Director-General of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Dr RP Dua on Tuesday stressed the need for provisioning quality seeds to the farmers for achieving the goals of food security. Inaugurating the three-day Regional Agriculture Fair at the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) here, Dr Dua said there …
An astronaut attempting to visit recently discovered planet GJ1214b would land in hot water — literally, American scientists say. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said they have identified an entirely new kind of planet, dominated not by rock, gas or other common materials, but water. The planet is …
The total volume of water that has melted from all of world’s polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade would repeatedly fill Britain’s largest lake, Windemere, more than 13,000 times, according to one of the most comprehensive studies of Earth’s frozen ‘cryosphere’. Using a unique …
IMPHAL, Feb 7 – Manipur- based Centre for Research on Environmental Development (CRED), an NGO, has been awarded the Green Globe Foundation award 2012 for outstanding contribution at the grass root level critical issues of environment degradation besides generating mass awareness on pollution related issues. The award was handed over …
Burning cowdung cakes can be 10 times more harmful than burning wood in poorly ventilated kitchens, something that can damage the lungs, a study comparing the two widely used kitchen fuels has found. Women who spend many hours cooking food in poorly ventilated homes can develop chronic obstructive lung disease …
Shimla: In an initiative backed by World Bank, the Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project has tied up with the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, for the standardisation of the silt-monitoring technology to help quantify the impact of watershed treatment interventions. World Bank is keen on developing a scientific model to evaluate …
Chandigarh: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be deploying airborne lasers and sensors to generate precision data about Himalayan topography and the amount of snow cover over the world’s highest mountain range. This data, part of which would be translated into maps, would assist in the movement and …
The city along with winter chill in January also witnessed high concentration of fine particulate matter less than 2.5 microns which crossed permissible levels, say scientists from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM). They said the quality of air is very poor. Levels of PM 2.5 have touched 135 …
Experts looking at global climate models say there’s a good chance that February and March too will see below normal temperatures. As several parts of India reel under a cold spell, here's worse news: expect the rest of the winter to be colder than usual. Experts looking at global climate …
WASHINGTON: Key steps on pollution control would slow down global warming by 0.5 degree Celsius, increase crop yields by 135 million tonnes and prevent thousands of premature deaths every year in India, Nepal and Bangladesh by 2050, reveals a study. The 14 steps, highlighted by NASA scientist Drew Shindell, are …
Broken deer antlers in Spain have led researchers to suggest that it may be time to change the hypothesis on osteoporosis as being a result of calcium deficiency. In a study published in the journal, Frontiers of Bioscience, researchers at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) have said manganese, which …
The 12th five-year plan, whose period is just about four months away, will see a significant focus on promotion of science and technology and public-private partnership in research areas. “The science and technology sector will occupy the centrestage in the 12th five-year plan. We are aiming to propel India from …
LONDON: The Moon may be the best place to look for aliens as their footprints on its surface would last far longer than radio signals, scientists have suggested. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, project looks for alien life in a one, main specific way by scanning for radio …
Jalpaiguri, Dec. 27: The Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute has confirmed that presence of abnormally high rate of endosulfan in the Karala had killed thousands of fish belonging to 33 species on November 28. The finding was mentioned in a 26-page report sent by the Calcutta-based institute to the assistant …
Kolkata: Buxa Tiger Reserve, a favourite holiday destination for wildlife lovers where tales abound of phantom tiger sightings, may have finally regained its stripes. A report by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has concluded that the North Bengal reserve — which has never had a steady tiger …
