The total food grain production reached an all-time high of 186 million tonnes in 1994-95, says the annual report of the Union ministry of agriculture with unprecedented optimism. India's

A DEVICE called the "Instrument Pig" will soon be used to monitor the health of gas pipelines. Being developed by the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC),

One of the most frustrating things about laptop computers is changing their batteries. Now, a London-based company, Radix Techno-logies, has developed a gizino that can circumvent the

British researchers are developing a voice recognition system that can identify a speaker if he or she is drunk or even has a cold. This could help reduce fraud involving cash machines and

EVEN while the Berlin Summit on climate Change was in progress, 20 European companies, under the aegis of the European Business Council for a sustainable Energy Future, have

GERMAN researchers have developed a tiny reversible pump which allows through just 50 nanolitres of liquid, equivalent to 1/1,000th of a drop of water. The micropump was designed by

...or how to use garbage to generate power

Computers will now bring peace in war-ravaged West Asia. This hope has inspired Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres to initiate a project that could give a new direction to information technology

European railway companies have decided to undergo a facelift. A consortium of 11 railway companies are joining hands to develop a crossborder European communications network. It plans to lay fibre

With growing pollution and staggering waste levels, the world's largest continent is fast emerging as the most lucrative hunting ground for firms hawking clean up technologies