a project to study India's genetically diverse population groups has been proposed by the department of biotechnology (dbt). The country has 75 endangered tribal groups among its 465

A foodstuff industry fungus finds a new job: cleaning up ash from municipal waste

Five mega projects along the western coast of the

The revolution in microelectronics that created cellular phones and palmtop computers now allows doctors to take their healing equipments out of the hospital and on to the road. A US-based firm

The world's most powerful computer will be on line in 1998. It will be 300 times faster than the ones in use now. It would take a person using a calculator 30,000 years to accomplish the work the

A new way of assembling boxes, combined with new coatings for cardboard, will make cardboard boxes airtight for the first time. This would be an end for the crinkly paper bags that nestle inside

The dream of constructing an elevator to space has come a step closer to reality

The Gujarat High Court recently cracked the whip

Parched and thirsty. A more gloo

cashing in on the