Delhiites may agree that the city has become a gas chamber in the past five years, but going by the actions of the government's top brass they don't seem to agree. Several instances have come to

HC : A student can avoid the live dissection session and opt for learning it on a computer screen. The Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education to

Forest officer seeks more time for probe: Andhra Pradesh Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) T. Ramakrishna Sought two more weeks to submit the report on the controversial dinner attended by Lok

People at Rajghat, 70 km telling tales of a gas discovered recently. It all happened when an old woman was lighting incense sticks in front of a small coloured photograph of Shiva on the banks of the

The Government of India today spoke in two voices, one out-shouted by the other, on the contentious draft rules for experiments on animals prepared by a committee headed by Minister of State for

The composite material developed for the Agni missile can also be used to make light weight appliances for polio affected children, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, scientific adviser to the Defence Minister,

As delegates from 160 nations meet here to add the details to the United Nations treaty to curb global warming, one country stand out, somewhat like the proverbial skunk at the garden party. It is

We soak up the world's dirt: America has done it again. Even as the world debates - for the nth time - global warming and climate change at a UN conference in Buenos Aires, a new scientific study

In a major step forward to deal with polythene menace, the Himachal Pradesh Govenment has proposed a ban on the use of recycled, coloured polythene bags for carrying food

In less than a week, at least 20 deer in the Taptapani deer park near here have died of septicaemia, a dreaded animal