The Indian Olympic Association’s repeated pleas to have Dow hemicals removed as a sponsor of the London Olympics may have fallen on deaf ears but now the Indian government has intervened with a new

The American company, Dow Chemicals, should not be sponsoring the Olympics, said the Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Ms Jayanthi Natarajan.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appreciated Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) concern for the victims of 1984 Bhopal Tragedy but maintained that Dow Chemicals had no ownership stakes

As part of the System of Air quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) project developed for air quality forecasting during the Commonwealth Games (CWG) – 2010, a high resolution Emission Inventory (EI) of PM10 and PM2.5 has been developed for the metropolitan city Delhi for the year 2010. The comprehensive inventory involves detailed activity data and developed for a domain of 70 km × 65 km with a 1.67 km × 1.67 km resolution covering Delhi and surrounding region using Geographical Information System (GIS) technique.

A civic group in Seoul on Wednesday protested the use of dirt containing asbestos in ballparks and high school sports grounds.

New Delhi: Whether it’s the timely investment of a surplus amount in the employees provident fund trust or procuring monthly concession passes for commuting on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, the Del

Despite missing a May 31 deadline set by high court for cleaning Neela Hauz lake, Delhi Development Authority and Public Works Department(PWD) are still sparring over increasing the depth of the wa

CAG report on Commonwealth Games 2010.

IL-15 receptor α (IL-15Rα)is a component ofthe heterotrimeric plasma membrane receptor for the pleiotropic cytokine IL-15. However, IL-15Rα is not merely an IL-15 receptor subunit, as mice lacking either IL-15 or IL-15Rα have unique phenotypes.IL-15 and IL-15Rα have been implicated in muscle phenotypes, but a role in muscle physiology has not been defined. Here, we have shown that loss ofIL-15Rα induces a functional oxidative shift in fast muscles, substantially increasing fatigue resistance and exercise capacity.

The Government will not engage in any development projects without the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report, Agrarian and Wildlife Minister S. M.

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