An Indian scientist has developed a process to refine low grade coal to prevent its residue of fly ash

Concerned about the pollution from combusting coal to generate power, the departments of science and technology and coal have set up a core group of bureaucrats and scientists to identify clean-coal

Scientists at the Radio Physics department of Calcutta University have expressed resentment over a recent decision taken by university authorities to transfer technical knowhow to Tata Steel from

A misplaced cigarette butt on the polyurethane seats in an aircraft, the most inflammable material besides the fuel, could lead to an aerial disaster. But Indian Airlines can cease to worry about the

It's time India realises that it is trade and not merely technological innovation that holds...

As a convergence of technological fields and traditional disciplines, of geography and remote sensing, surveying and computer science, GIS has a wide range of applications

The GIS' greatest enemy is a government obsessed with paranoid secrecy about data

Digital palimpsest: In 1991, the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, used GIS to undertake a pilot study for wasteland development in Bellary district of Karnataka. The wastelands were divided

Geographical Information Systems is revolutionising the present and portend a happier future. Or so we hope in the maps of our minds.

NEC Corp, the Tokyo-based electronics concern, plans to dazzle consumers with a 256-megabyte flash memory chip. This "next generation" device, which will be 16 times as powerful as those now in the

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