A critical computer shut down aboard Mir yesterday, just three days before the US space shuttle Discovery's scheduled lift-off on a ferry flight to the Russian space station. The computer failure

Days after the Union Environment Ministry asked the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah to clamp a total ban on the trade of shartoosh shawls as these were made after killing the

In a major crackdown, the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has come down heavily on half-a-dozen large private sector companies and state-owned cooperative sugar mills in the last

A 12-day-old Hong Kong baby has entered the annals of medical history by becoming the world's youngest patient to undergo a keyhole surgery in his large intestine.The boy was suffering from total

Smoking will become even more of tobacco behaviour under a campaign by the Singapore governemnt to use family and social pressure to get smokers to kick the

Hundreds of rare parrots and monkeys, a Mexican lynx and a mountain lion have been rescued in the breakup of a major exotic wildlife smuggling operation, federal authorities announced

In India, tobacco claims ten lakh lives every year, 3,000 lives every day and one life every ten seconds. By the year 2000, it will claim one life every three seconds. Two crore Indian children get

The mercury soared to 46.5 degree Celsius, making today the hottest day in May during the past 54 years. The day temperatures were six degrees above normal and were accompanied by dust

The Badarpur Thermal Power Station (BTPS) has stolen a march over the beleaguered Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) by bagging a contract for supplying bricks made of waste flyash to the Embassy of the United

Health officials in Ho Choi Minh City have banned the anti-impotence drug Viagra pending a Ministry of Health review of its