DYES and dyestuffs used in the printing and dyeing of textiles and leather goods could soon become free from harmful chemicals if a legislation banning their use comes into effect in India.

Zimbabwe is gearing up for a bone dry period ahead. A so-called rainy season actually left the country high and dry, and turned out to be drier than the great drought of 1992. And the

A World Health Organisation's (WHO) recent B Programme report has warned the world community of tuberculosis epidemic. The annual global death toll from TB could rise to 4 million by AD

HI-TFCH Satellite phones - satphones, for short - will soon make it possible for train travellers to make long distance calls while*on board. The satphone, no bigger than a briefcase, is a

India's first agro-industrial park will set up in Tapukara -village in jasthan. The park, to be set up der the aegis of the Delhi-based ant group will be utilised to grow ,dicinal plants

AOTHER disaster in Chernobyl could well be in the making, warn Western and Russian scientists. A report funded by the European Commission, and flashed by The Observer, a UK daily, says that

ORISSA'S southern coast was recently the scene of hectic activity as thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles nested there en masse. The turtles, which figure in the list of endangered species,

Sevaral giant chemical companies reprieve at the Federal District Court in Los Angeles, when judge Andrew Hauke threw out a lawsuit Filed by the federal government. The suit had acused

Biologist Walter Gehring and his colleagues from the University of Basel in Switzerland have developed genetically engineered swarms of fruit flies, helping them understand how

ON MARCH 23, serial blasts in Delhi's upmarket Connaught Place area shook the city. However, the "terrorists" this time were non-human: they were the sewage drains of the area which