A Canadian company has proven that urban wood waste in the form of old pallets, construction and demolition wood and even Hollywood sets can be transformed into high quality medium density fibreboard
The World Bank has put together a start-up kit as part of an initiative to encourage water and sanitation utilities to compile and share performance indicators. Improvements in utilities' performance
With most parts of the telecom switching network already Y2K compliant, the Department of Telecom (DoT) expects to complete all compliance activities by October. A status report was presented by the
In a major breakthrough in pharmacology, the scientists at the Delhi University have developed the smallest synthetic polymer particle that can courier drugs to just the right sites of the body. The
This wind-swept Patagonian desert port is turning into fertile ground for more than tumbleweed as eco-tourism spreads from whale watching to inland tours of a petrified forest and a new dinosaur
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch, in the next two years, a remote sensing satellite that will be useful for mapping ground activities at high altitude, including those of
NASA has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter, a space probe billed as the first inter-planetary weather satellite, in what could be a serious, but not crippling, blow to efforts to determine
After the successful testing and approval by leading OEM's including Acer, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard for its new 3D defense system, Seagate Technology, leading manufacturer of disc drives, magnetic
US State Dept : India is poorly prepared to tackle the Year 2000 problem, according to a survey done by the State Department of USA. The study says the remediation workd has not been completed in any