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With government efforts proving inadequate, private organisations recycle the lion's share of urban waste in India.

"Our first supercomputer, PARAM, represents the potential India has in high-tech areas, especially in terms of skilled, dynamic humanpower," says N Vittal, former secretary in the department of

A group of scientists is attempting to collect and store genetic material from various tribes on the verge of extinction in an effort to preserve their characteristics.

Chairperson designate of the Telecom Commission N Vittal talks to Down To Earth on how he intends to reform the functioning of the commission.

Genetically altered animals can produce vital proteins and serve as excellent models to study diseases.

The MNES has proposed the establishment of a solar thermal power plant near Jodhpur, even though such plants have proved commercially unviable in the past.

A group of American psychiatrists have proclaimed that some women suffer from a mental illness that usually begins a week before their menstrual period.

Solar thermal technologies produce electricity by using sunlight to heat liquid, which in turn drives a turbine.

THE recent locust attack has made India and Pakistan suspend their rivalry and launch a large-scale joint operation along their border between Punjab and Sindh. "This is a common problem. We'll have

Rapid developments in human gene cloning and efficient gene-transfer technologies have opened up the possibility, in a sense, of producing transgenic humans. In the past four years, researchers have

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