New Delhi: For patients with severely dysfunctional organs, transplant becomes the last option but finding a compatible donor to replace the organ is an uphill task. However, such patients won

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Earth may be warmer by four degree centigrade by the next decade }
NATURAL calamities like the tsunami, frequent cyclones and flash floods are indications of climate change due to human interference, according to academicians and environmental engineers from across the globe who gathered at IITMadras for a meet on the future state of water resources and environment.

Chennai's twin corridors: The poor-rich divide represents the social conflict and the acute water scarcity reflects the environmental degeneration at OMR and ECR, says M G Devasahayam
The OMR turned IT Corridor turned Rajiv Gandhi Salai is the Information Technology hub of the city, home to the top multinational IT companies and the harbinger of Chennai becoming a global city .

Mumbai To meet global standards, the Union Environment Ministry, in a move that went largely unnoticed, had reduced permissible air pollution limits last month though the earlier norms were not being met.

Now state officials say they are facing a

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Mumbai: Mumbai needs an underground metro instead of an elevated one. Advocated by a number of citizen groups, this opinion now has the backing of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Powai.

A CLUTCH of small companies is turning the brouhaha over global warming into a hot business proposition.

To check illegal mining activities in the State, the State Government maintained that it is contemplating to prepare a map of the actual mining lease area by using remote sensing technology.

Prof. C.N.R. Rao left many a scientist slack-jawed with the disclosure at the platinum jubilee meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences
India's top-most advisory panel on climate change has no climate change scientists.

The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change comprises half-a-dozen Central ministers, senior bureaucrats, economists and representatives of industry.

S. RAGHOTHAM
Shashikanth, Arnab and Ashim of IIT-Kharagpur have built an earthen pot-in-pot cold storage system -- a refrigerator that uses almost no electricity, except that consumed by a small fan.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While the Tamil Nadu Government has pooh-poohed the IIT Roorkee