New Delhi: Tata Motors, the new owner of Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR), has started taking steps to reduce emissions from the two British marques to drive within the stricter norms that are expected to come in force across the European Union from 2012.

Tata Motora MD Ravi Kant told TOI that a number of measures could be taken up by JLR to cut emissions. "Surely Jaguar and Land Rover are conscious of the direction in which things are moving and, of course, they will take adequate measures to see that they comply with the norms," he said.

Buoyed By Early Success Of Cern

Development May Lead To Technology For Heat Transfer, Soil Enrichment

Washington: Scientists in the United States have created the world

Human waste to power US city
In A First, Methane Gas To Be Harvested On Commercial Scale And Turned Into Clean Fuel

San Antonio: The city of San Antonio unveiled a deal that will make it the first US city to harvest methane gas from human waste on a commercial scale and turn it into clean-burning fuel.
San Antonio residents produce about 140,000 tons a year of a substance gently referred to as

UK Scientists Develop Technology That Can Provide Safe Water To Millions in India

London: British scientists claim to have found a solution to the world

Objects Of Neolithic Era Found High In The Alps In Warming Fallout

Bern: Some 5,000 years ago a prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows.

The unremarkable journey through the Schnidejoch pass, a lofty trail 2,756 metres above sea level, has been a boon to scientists but it would never have emerged if climate change were not melting the nearby glacier.

New Delhi: With 2,700 domestic breeding checkers (DBCs) on strike, the city has been rendered doubly vulnerable to the dengue demon. Add to this the sporadic rain, which has only made matters worse. DBCs say that they have not been paid their salaries for months now. Moreover, they have demanded that they be given permanent employment. On Monday, the issue of rising dengue cases as also the DBC strike figured in the House meeting also.

Draft Bill Says Bags Can

Green Brigade Up In Arms
TNN & AGENCIES

London/New Delhi: Garbage is literally flying and hitting the roof thousands of kilometres away. A TV report about household waste collected weekly across Britain for recycling being shipped and dumped in India has the green brigade up in arms.

As part of Britain

James Ashton & Danny Fortson

The executives say the costs of food and other items are unlikely to fall significantly, even though some commodity prices have slipped back recently.