Natural gas can meet as much as one-third of China's future power needs if certain market reforms are under-taken, according to the summary of a joint U.S.-China study. The full study offers a number

The Centre has directed the Karnataka Government to take over in 45 days the forest area leased to a five star hotel group at Nagarahole National Park in Kodagu district.It has also sought a report

For a tiny germ, the tuberculosis bacterium takes a hige financial and human toll. It is the leading single infectious cause of female deaths in the world. Nine hundred million are infected

Minister : Minister for Environment and Science and Technology Prasanna Kumar Das has criticised the nuclear tests carried out by the country saying the environment would be adversely affected due to

Even as a special train is on its way bringing lakhs of astham patients to the Battina Goud brothers for their special fish cure, the treatment is facing a problem of its own: there may not be enough

It may come as a surprise to many, but an international survey has found the environment to be an important top-of-mind concern, particularly in urban India and China. Over 54 per cent of Indians,

Virologist Donald Francis, who successfully battled Ebola in the Sudan and smallpox in India, is now taking on the trickiest assignment of his career: an international test of an AIDS vaccine. Dr.

World Bank Vice-President Ismail Serageldin said today that multinational corporations (MNCs) through their manipulation of the patent regime posed a serious threat to future food security,

The Manas tiger reserve and national park in Assam, which was till five years ago a place of refuge for Bodo militants, is back to being a tiger haven. The militants had destroyed wooden bridges,

Canadian researchers have found a human gene that may block the aging process in cells and extend their life, said a report published yesterday in the journal Nature