The electronics industry is poised for a quantum jump as a group of Indian scientists claim to have developed a silicon based, light emitting diode.

Indian engineers have developed a laser based alignment system, which have the high level of precision essential for installing sophisticated machinery and ensuring its optimum functioning.

Sandwiched between an encroaching sea and dams that prevent silt from reaching it, the Nile delta seems doomed.

A cholera epidemic in the Indian subcontinent is nothing unusual. But now, another bacterial strain that can cause the disease has surfaced.

The Indian meteorological department has not made its usually accurate early monsoon forecast this year, reportedly at the behest of the finance ministry.

An indigenous technique of manufacturing carbon carbon composites state of the art materials of immense commercial and military importance.The manufacture of these composite has been till now a monopoly of the industrialed countries.

It was the Stockholm conference, held exactly 20 years ago, which put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. But the contours of environmental negotiapons have changed a great deal from those early days

The ambitious Indian space programme, despite occasional setbacks, has had its share of success. A backgrounder to the programme which is very much in the news today