HELPED along with generous grants from the World Bank and Japan to green the Aravallis, plus its own sizeable forestry budget, the Rajasthan government has embarked on an ambitious compensatory

Researchers at the Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow have successfully used a crude extract from the plant baruri (Crataeva nurvala) to dissolve stones in bladder and kidney. G K

THE NATIONAL Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, has prepared terminology for their science in eight Indian languages. About 400 terms have been selected and their equivalents prepared in Bengali,

HINDUSTAN Machine Tools is in the process of fabricating three 23 ft X 11 ft and 30 20 ft X 8 ft population clocks that will indicate, along with the time, the increase in size of the population

Forty five bodies have joined hands to mobilise protest campaigns against changes in laws which will comply with GATT proposals for a new economic regime

WAS ROBERT C Gallo guilty, along with his colleagues at the US National Institute of Health, of scientific misconduct for their conduct and reporting of the crucial experiments that led to the

Even the lowly cow pat has ownership rules in rural India. But rights over dung, an important source of energy and soil fertilisation, vary from community to community

The Rajasthan and Haryana governments feel threatened by the Centre's move to stop industrial, mining and quarrying activity in the Aravalli region. Environmentalists, on the other hand, applaud the move