Minister for Health and Family Welfare Salahuddin Yusuf said that the government would extent the present agreement with International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) for

Nikon Corp., working with Hitachi Seiko Ltd. and tooth-material maker GC Corp., has developed a computer system that automates the task of manufacturing false teeth. When a real tooth must be ground

With a view to making dryland farming more meaningful and practical and fecilitate transfer of technology onto the field, dryland farmers will be involved in the research activity of agricultural

US scientists have identified a special breed of mice that can regrow the end of their tails and other tissues, demonstrating a feat of regeneration that was previously unknown in mammals. The

The Human Genome Project, the ambitious attempt to analyse the human genetic inheritance, is in danger of fostering a new form of eugenics, a US biologist has told the American Association for the

The wild elephants that once roamed freely over southern China retreated long ago to the dense tropical rain forest that covers the mountains here near the borders with Burma and Laos. The dwindling

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started the inquiry into the tendu leaf case in Madhya Pradesh. Accepting the request of the State Government, the Union Ministry of Home has entrusted

The State has been awarded the first prize for outstanding performance towards popularisation of solar photo-voltaic programme during 1995-96 by the Union Ministry of Non-conventional Energy

Doctors in New Delhi are now dissolving blood clots which block cardiac arteries with a new painless non-invasive ultra-sound technique. The new procedure called Acolysis was performed for the first

The paper industry has offered to reforest two million hectare of degraded forest lands. Indian paper manufacturers, as producers of wood-based products and good corporate citizens, are committed to