In the face of severe criticism by Union environment minister Kamal Nath, among others, the Madhya Pradesh government has agreed to defer implementation of its new "nistar policy." The controversial

N B L Prasad and G Azeemoddin at the Hyderabad-based Oil Technological Research Institute have discovered that the seeds of an Australian species of Acacia can be crushed to yield oil while the

A department of science and technology-sponsored study on the brain drain from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), conducted by the University Grants Commission (UGC), found that a lack of a

Scientists working on department of science and technology's high altitude projects face a bleak future

The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights

...and latest findings have 2 groups of mutually hostile astronomers still going cockeyed trying to gauge the age of the universe

A rice hybrid developed in India can help reap an extra Rs 2,500 per ha

The Supreme Court has washed aside an ambiguous Review Committee Report and ordered fresh investigations