You could call it reincarnation by decree. Even as the battle to secure the future of the lakhs of families ousted by the mega Narmada Dam project waxes and wanes, there is one section of the displaced that is being rehabilitated quietly and efficiently
The therapy may hold the cure for many dreaded ills
WHEN the patch on six-year-old Sumaiya Aziza's left eye was removed, her reaction, and of her parents, was like a frame out of a Bollywood scene. The tears, the joy, the incredulity, and the words, "Baba, I can see."
The ethical question doesn't arise when cloning a human organ
CUT a stem of a plant and stick it on the ground. Chances are it will grow into a new plant. The cells in the plant stem have the ability to do so. Do we humans have this same ability? Research findings during the last two decades suggest that we might, depending on which of our cells we start from.
When Dr Marc Stollreiter, a first-time German visitor to Kashmir, went on a shikara ride on the picturesque Dal lake recently, he was shocked by what he saw beneath its tranquil waters. "We found huge quantities of syringes and needles. We saw mounds of rotting garbage. We saw tourists throwing empty chips packets, plastic bags and the like from shikaras into the lake."
Initially, the 21 families in Tanir Bavi, a hamlet situated on the banks of Gurrupur river in Mangalore, thought the idea of a floating power plant—which could be towed along the coast or the river
In the last five years, wildlife scientists have been expanding our knowledge of India's biological universe while trying to unveil new species, from mammoths to minute-sized living beings. These
The Saras Crane stands between CM Mulayam Singh Yadav and his dream of an international airport in his native village Saifai in Mainpuri district. Foreseeing the airstrip as a threat to the birds's
A UNICEF report confirms India's ugly truth: a blighted record of maternity death. A recently released UNICEF report states that a woman dies every five minutes from pregnancy and childbirth-related
