On July 20, five-year -old Pranav Khare, a Beta Thalessmia Major patient underwent a successful bone marrow transplant. And his parents did not have to go abroad and pay exorbitantly for it. The

The flood situation in Assam today remained critical as at least 10 districts with a population of nearly three lakh were affected. Officials said that nearly three lakh people of 800 villages in he

Small children and babies a few months old will receive a revolutionary new vaccine for Meningitis C from October in the hope of cutting the death toll from the deadly brain disease, the government

A major ecological disaster is waiting to happen on the Saurashtra coast where an increasing number of captive jetties and private berthing platforms are coming up to enable cargo ships and even oil

A hospital conjures up a picture of serenity. But in Delhi, it is just the opposite. A study monitoring 15 hospitals has shown that they are some of the noisiest areas in the city - and the maximum

Sidharth Banthiya, 22, and just out of college from the University of Pennsylvania, is in Delhi. A graduate in biology he got a break as a social worker to get students here to work for the AIDS

Three cosmonauts are marooned in the ageing Mir space sation which is losing air pressure while a major diplomatic wrangle about how to rescue them rages on earth. Mir mission control on Saturday

A one-day convention held by the MSEB Workers Federation in protest against the second phase of Enron and privatisation of power generation and distribution today unanimously decided to intensify the

Fully grown trees can now be uprooted and transplanted - at a price. Explains Praveen Kumar of Plumule Agro, a company that specialists in tree transplantation:"It is a highly skilled job and quite

Cosmonauts on board the Russian space station Mir have detected a tiny air leak causing depressurisation for the past week but they have not been able to locate it, officials said today. The leak is