the West Bengal Pollution Control Board ( wbpcb ) has banned the setting up of new businesses, including hospitals and nursing homes in Calcutta and Howrah. The wbpcb has come out with

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal against the Gujarat high court order allowing Reliance Petroleum Limited ( rpl ) to lay pipelines for its Motikhavdi project through a marine national

Two engineers of Cambridge University have invented a microchip so tiny that it is expected to revolutionise the computer industry. The chip, created by Prof. Mark Welland and Dr Russell Cowburn,

Russia completed an experiment simulating a long-term space mission aboard the international space station on Sunday. Three crew members, who entered the Moscow complex on June

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has assured plastic processing units operating in Delhi that they would not be asked to close down if they followed the norms prescribed for controlling

The Hinduja group company Ashok Leyland will set up a dedicated facility at its Alwar plant to manufacture compressed natural gas(CNG) buses, a top company official said here today. The site was

TIPCO Industries Ltd(TIL), has developed Tipwood, a unique material fo construction. The technology behind the making combines synthetic resins with a renewable fibre, jute. The result is a composite

Effluents from a factory in Bangladesh, discharged into a river flowing to West Bengal, are posing a health hazard for thousands of residents of the border district of Nadia, newspaper reports says

Millions of tonnes of oil palm fruit waste, rotting away in plantations nationwide, will soon be turned into a durable composite material suitable for industrial and domestic use. The composite

The space shuttle Endeavour touched down in Cape Canaveral late Tuesday at the Kennedy Space Centre, completing its 11-day mapping mission, NASA said.Endeavour and its six astronuts landed at