Jaipur: State’s health department is among five in South-East Asia region of WHO to receive award for its accomplishment in the area of tobacco control. It is the only government body in the country which will be awarded for its tobacco free initiatives (TFIs) on the World Tobacco Day (May …
Stockholm: Two Americans were awarded the Nobel economics prize on Monday for studies on the matchmaking taking place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients. The work of Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley has sparked a “flourishing field of research” and …
delves deep into the research carried out by the Science Nobel winners to understand what they did, why they are important & what the future implications of findings are Medicine WINNERS: John Gurdon & Shinya Yamanaka INSTITUTION: Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK & Kyoto University, Japan PRIZE-WINNING WORK: Adult cells can …
Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL) SEZ refinery at Jamnagar has won the ‘Globe of Honour Award’ for excellence in environmental management. The award is given by the British Safety Council, London. This is the first time that a Reliance Industries’ manufacturing site has been bestowed with such a coveted award. The …
Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley were awarded the Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that helps explain the market processes at work when doctors are assigned to hospitals, students to schools and human organs for transplant to recipients. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two economists …
Two Americans — Robert J Lefkowitz and Brian K Kobilka — shared this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for deciphering the communication system that the human body uses to sense the outside world and send messages to cells. Lefkowitz, 68, is a professor at the Duke University Medical Center in …
A French and an American scientist won the Nobel prize on Tuesday for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them, which could make it possible to build a new kind of computer far more powerful than any seen before. Serge Haroche from France and American David Wineland, both …
French-American Duo Hailed For Finding Way To Help Build Supercomputers. Stockholm: A French-American duo shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for inventing methods to observe the properties of the quantum world, research that has led to the construction of extremely precise clocks and helped scientists take the …
Document contains the Press Release by Welspun Energy, winner of Asian Power Award. This award is recognition of Welspun’s commitment to innovation and continued focus on renewable energy projects. Their engineering and construction teams had been worked round the year to commission projects such as Anjar through several challenges and …
Stockholm: A British researcher and a Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering that ordinary cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells, which then can turn into any kind of tissue — a discovery that may led to new treatments. …
A French and an American scientist won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for finding ways to measure elusive quantum particles without destroying them, something researchers previously thought impossible. Their work could lead to the building of a new kind of super fast computer based on quantum physics, …
STOCKHOLM: Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for work in cell programming, a frontier that has raised dreams of growing replacement tissue for people crippled by disease. The two scientists were lauded for determining that adult cells can be …
The Indian Metals and Ferro Alloys Ltd (IMFA), Choudwar Division, bagged the prestigious Pollution Control Appreciation Award, 2012, in recognition of its adoption of effective pollution control measures and sound environmental management practices. Executive vice-president of IMFA Choudwar BD Sahu received the award from Minister for Forests and Environment Bijayashri …
New Delhi: The focus of energy efficiency has usually been large buildings, whether residential or commercial. Now, there is a project that will help smaller buildings reduce their carbon footprint. An offshoot of GRIHA — the green rating for integrated habitat assessment — SVAGRIHA has been conceptualized especially for buildings …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has won the “Earth Care Award 2012” for pioneering Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation Project. The $10 million project is being implemented by the UNDP under Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) of the Global Environment Facilities (GEF) to reduce climate vulnerability …
The renewable energy companies competing for the £10m Saltire Prize will be announced by the Scottish government later. The announcement will be made in Orkney, where members of the Scottish Cabinet will meet on Wednesday. The competition was set up to encourage the development of wave and tidal energy devices …
PUNE: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has invited nominations for the national awards for prevention of pollution and the 'Rajiv Gandhi Environment Award for Clean Technology' for the year 2011-2012. The identified categories of this award include highly polluting industries, industries which have made a significant and measurable …
Kamal Meattle says that water crisis is grave and would worsen in future. It is time that people should do their bit and start making sincere efforts towards water conservation. Paharpur Business Centre & Software Technology Incubator Park (PBCTM - STIP) realized this looming crisis long back and resorted to …
Theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen, a string theorist at Allahabad’s Harish-Chandra Research Institute, has become a crorepati overnight. On Tuesday, Prof Sen became one of the nine winners of the first Yuri Milner Fundamental Physics Prize — at $ 3 million (Rs 16.7 crore), the most lucrative academic prize in the …
Leading scientist P Rama Rao (file photo) will recieve the Defence Research and Develop-ment Organisation’s (DRDO’s) lifetime achievement award for 2011 from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here tomorrow. Prof. Rao (75) is being given the award in recognition of his exceptional contributions in a wide array of technology and management …
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 …
