Incessant rains claimed over 110 lives in Maharashtra and Gujarat even as Mumbai slowly limped back to normalcy on Thursday. At least 100 people are feared dead in an avalanche of rock , mud and

The Telugu Desam government lost yet another layer of political credibility when it tabled documents pertaining to the World Bank loan for restructing of the power sector in Andhra

A new gene treatment, successfully used on mice, offers hope for millions of people in the Mediterranean, Asia and the United States who suffer from potentially fatal forms of

15 die so far : Fifteen persons died while hundreds, affected by gastroenteritis, are undergoing treatemnet in private and government hospitals in various parts of Medak and Nalgonda districts during

After the successful mapping of the human genome, it would well be the turn of the rice genome for mapping now. Agricultural scientists of various countries, led by Japan, are currently working on

The public sector Gas Authority of India Limited will soon begin work on the 600-km-long pipeline from Hyderabad to Visakhapatnam for supplying liquid natural gas. The total cost of the project is

Eleven farmers' organisations have decided to organise State-level dharnas on July 6 demanding the government to reduce power tariff. Dharnas would be organised before Collectorates and mandal

The Congress Legislature Party leader Y S Rajesekhar Reddy has demanded that the State government enter into a fresh power purchase agreement with GVK power and Spectrum. Reddy told media persons

The Osmania General Hospital was being supplied with polluted water until hospital authorities discovered that the water was contaminated on Thursday

Hong Kong computer users were put on alert on Tuesday following the discovery of a computer virus attached to an e-mail message. The virus, which spreads via Microsoft outlook or Internet chat room,