A Chennai based anti-virus software company, K7 Computing Pvt Ltd, claims to have found a cure for the Melissa virus which has been crippling e-mail systems aroudn the world since last Friday.The

The Forest Department, which has been carrying out a survey in the reserved forests of Chikmagalur district with the help of the Survey of India, is in a bind following threats by encroachers and

Increased salinity has spelt doom for thousands of farmers in villages like Tunda, Sirachi, Kandagara, Bhaliyam, Gundiyari, Tagdim, Dhrub and Navinal - along the Gulf of Kutch. Groundwater, which is

The Associated Cement Companies (ACC), in a bid to garner funds following the failure of its plan to make preferential allotment of Rs 100 crore of shares to the Tata Group, has decided to sell two

In the late 60's, the entire gaur (bison) population of Nagerhole Mahumalai wildlife sanctuary had been wiped out by an epidemic. Fortunately, no major epidemic has broken out after than but some

The Reserve Bank of India and all its branches will be Y2K compliant only by end-May 1999, missing the March 31 deadline it has set for banks and non-banking finance

A couple of years ago, the whale shark was a good omen for the fishermen of Veraval. A sighting of the gigantic fish meant a good catch. Today, the whale shark which was once considered 'sacred'

Kerala House panel : The Kerala Legislative Committee for SC-ST welfare, which probed the veracity of a Malayalam daily's report on the dwindling population of the Malamuthan tribe in Malappuram

Floods affecting many parts of Belarus contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion may pollute rivers flowing into the Baltic and Black Seas, Belarussin leader Alexander Lukashenko has

A team of five scientists at the Regional Research Laboratory (RRL) has found a method to utilise Lignin-a waste product from the 241-odd small pulp and paper mills in the country that turns toxic