New Delhi: Qutub Minar will now come under intense scrutiny for keeping tabs on the extent of its tilt. After requests from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), a team of experts from Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee will arrive in Delhi next month and conduct a periodical study of the 13th century monument to assess the tilt and ensure it has not aggravated.
World leaders who are meeting at the United Nations to discuss climate change are faced with an intricate challenge: building momentum for an international climate treaty at a time when global temperatures have been stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years.
The chain smokers might have to face tough times in the Capital as the Delhi government seems to have reached the next level of controlling air pollution in the city.
The health department of Delhi government is gearing up to keep tabs on the indoor air quality of bars, clubs, restaurants, offices, etc.
Jupiter snared a passing comet in the middle of the last century, eventually releasing it 12 years later, astronomers reported on Monday. Data presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, near Berlin, showed that the biggest planet of the Solar System gained a temporary satellite, a comet called 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu, between 1949 and 1961.
CHANDRAYAAN-I may have met a premature death, but its mission remains more or less accomplished. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has said that the termination of Chandrayaan-1 last week after losing radio contact with earth will not impact the retrieval of scientific data it has carried out in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).
New Delhi: In a significant discovery, scientists may have found the most potent weapon to date to combat HIV. Bringing hope to the idea of developing an effective vaccine against the deadly virus, scientists have discovered two highly powerful new antibodies that neutralised all major forms of the virus from the body of an African man.
JANATA Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking scrapping of the controversial Sethusamudram project, claiming that a government expert body has doubted its feasibility.
