Scientists associated with the Rs 900-crore India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) have termed the Centre's denial of permission for setting up the project at Singara in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR) as a

A Murrah buffalo at the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) here has yielded a record 23.3 kg milk in a single day.

"The rare feat was achieved on the 56th day of the second lactation of the buffalo, born at the institute using superior germplasm," said NDRI director Dr AK Srivastava.

Breakthrough In Rabbits Helps Them Mate; May Help Grow Complex Body Parts

Washington: Researchers have engineered artificial penises in rabbits, using cells from the animals, who then used their new organs to father baby rabbits.

Punjab, the land of rivers, is drying up rapidly. The overexploitation of groundwater is leading to drastic depletion of water table in the state, prompting the scientists to call it a

LUCKNOW: Forsake your private vehicles and go for `pool' transport. The drastic increase in vehicular pollution in residential areas of Lucknow is due to substantial increase in vehicles plying on city roads. Going for pool transport could be the contribution of Lucknowites towards saving the environmental quality.

The UPA government, it seems, can no longer drag its feet over the Sethusamudram project with the Supreme Court on Tuesday categorically asking it

Significant studies on climate change and generation of data on high-altitude eco-systems can now be possible with the setting up of a high-altitude research centre at Ribling in Lahaul-Spiti by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

Omuta: Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.

The cutting-edge but controversial technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being tested at the Mikawa power station, located near the coast of Japan's southern Fukuoka prefecture.

Union Minister for Forests and Environment Jairam Ramesh today announced that the Centre would grant a

The Conclave of Chief Ministers of Hill States on

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