To its credit, Sikkim is the third Indian state to bring out a Human Development Report in September 2001. The document analyses the quality of life in a state as a measure of several factors,

A Bangalore-based firm and a team of engineers from Bangalore university have developed a way of using plastic waste for road construction. On April 9, Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna

The 6,000-odd surviving musk deer in the country are in for trouble - if Union Health Minister C P Thakur has his way. Musk, a gland in the abdominal region of the male deer, is a vital ingredient in

Paediatricians and Psychiatrists at AIIMS have developed a software package, Pragya, to help dyslexics with the help of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Pragya is based on acoustic

Sudden cardiac deaths are the single largest cause of natural deaths, and their incidence is higher in India than world averages. Now, there are plans to introduce Automatic External Defibrillators

TB is a deadly disease but can be cured. Millions succumb to it because it is not detected at all. The present means of detection are not foolproof. The sputum test and the lung X-ray used for

With the Union Environment Ministry's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee clearing Bt Cotton, the era of genetically modified seeds has begun for the Indian farmer. The Government will, however,

The dodo vanished from the earth more than 500 years ago, but its closet relatives survives in India's Nicobar Islands. A genetic study by Oxford University scientists Beth Shapiro and Alan Cooper

India is home to an estimated 125 varieties of Bamboo, a grass that has been used in products from aphrodisiacs to light bulb filaments. The belated realisation that this resource can be worth a lot

Even as poaching and loss of habitat push the leopard into extinction there is neither a government initiative nor the public will to save the