New Delhi (PTI): Warning that the problem of climate change would be acute in the 21st century, eminent environmentalist R K Pachauri on Saturday asked the IITs to undertake research to overcome the dangers.

Speaking at the 39th convocation of IIT Delhi, Pachauri, who heads the Intergovernmental Panel (IPCC) on Climate Change, which won the Nobel peace prize last year, said the IPCC report has found that warming of climate system is unequivocal.

Here is some good news for the flood victims. They need not consume polluted water as they used to for days together when their drinking water sources remained submerged in floods.

a research team has stumbled upon a bug that feasts on arsenic. Present in the root nodules of black gram, the bacteria increases soil fertility and fixes nitrogen. It could be an effective way of bioremediation of arsenic from contaminated soil, says a team of researchers from iit Kharagpur and Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal. They isolated a tolearant strain of rhizobium

In comes the deal, so does the demand. Even as dust over the Indo-US nuclear deal is yet to settle in the political circles, the academia is moving forward to meet the demand for hundreds of trained hands to man the power stations envisaged for the future.

NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu government has rejected the conclusion of a recent study made by a two-member Delhi IIT team that the Mullaperiyar dam bordering Kerala and Tamil Nadu is

Both the reports of the Delhi IIT and the Roorkee IIT to be placed before apex court Rs. 1.31 crore sanctioned towards engineering investigations for building new dam THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The report on a study on probable maximum flood conditions at Mullaperiyar, released by the Delhi IIT recently, doubly reiterated the need for replacing the 108-year-old dam located there, said Kerala Minister for Water Resources N.K. Premachandran.

It is certainly not a bumpy ride for the DMRC. A study by IIT students, based on vibration levels inside the trains, states the metro is one of the most comfortable modes of transport and that it adheres to international standards. The study, carried out with the help of equipment developed by UK's Loughborough University, was conducted on the elevated and underground sections of all three operational lines of the Delhi Metro. The results from all sections were within the "most comfortable' category.

Says IIT study using vibration levels inside trains as measure of comfort Commuters delight: Vibration levels inside Metro trains meet the "most comfortable' tag of ISO standards. NEW DELHI: The Delhi metro railway is one of the most comfortable means of public transport, according a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, using equipment developed in the United Kingdom. The study used vibration levels experienced by passengers in the metro as a measure of the comfort level and compared it with international standard ISO 2631-4-1997.

It is aimed at creating public awareness about the city's ecological units