BHEL scientists, who developed the country's first battery powered vans, say only higher government subsidies can make the vehicles affordable to potential users.

BHEL's sophisticated laboratories, some of them the only one of their kind in India, show the emphasis the organisation lays on R&D.

K Ramakrishnan, director of engineering R&D at BHEL, talks to Down To Earth about his confidence in his unit's ability to meet the new challenges.

The environment ministers of Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and India are likely to meet soon to work out a clean-up programme for the Himalaya. The idea for the 'Save

Different estimates of the extent of the country's wastelands area has forced the ministry of rural development to call for a remapping of such areas. The ministry's wasteland development department

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that do not help in the government's family planning programmes may get debarred from receiving government funds. Since the beginning of October, the government

US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton announced on September 29, a sweeping liberalisation of export controls on computers and other high-technology products. This indicates a change in attitude from 1989, when

A unique database on mangroves -- the Mangrove Ecosystem Information Service (MEIS) -- developed by the Centre for Research in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (CRSARD) in Madras, will