As the world follows the Akatsuki Maru and its 1.3 tonnes of plutonium oxide on its controversial trans oceanic journey from France to Japan, Tokyo has to decide whether it will continue its trade in this highly toxic material.
Public pressure resulted in Calcutta's biased pollution control laws being made more scientific. But the new standards were not set according to what people could bear.
THE SUPREME Court, in its judgement on the controversial Mandal Commission recommendations, upholds "merit" as the preferable yardstick for admission and recruitment to the scientific and technical
Karoshi -- death from overwork -- has struck corporate bigwigs in Japan. Now, white-collared workers and women too are being affected and a worried labour ministry has announced a set of initiatives
1992 * 81 skins, including 3 tiger skins, were seized in Delhi in one of the biggest hauls of the decade. * Trader caught in Delhi with 2 tiger skins and leopard skins, totally worth Rs 3 lakh.
Faced with the century's worst recession Helsinki has had to cut back heavily on development aid. At stake are several international environmental projects.
FRENCH willingness to share space research and nuclear power expertise with India is considered a welcome and viable alternative coming as it does in the wake of a US ban on the Indian Space
After being spewed into the atmosphere for the past 30 years, mainly through the use of fire extinguishers, ozone-depleting halon concentrations are now decreasing (Nature, Vol 359 No 6394). Although
