The Punjab government has ordered a probe into a series of suicides by small and marginal farmers and landless workers in Sangrur district of the state. This decision was taken by Punjab chief

Unholy smokeWith a cigarette in your hand you would be a dead man. Yes, by the time you would have finished reading this particular box, smoking would have claimed another six lives across the

several mineral water sachets in Chennai have been found with coliform bacteria. Recently, the health department of the Chennai Corporation had conducted a survey to determine the quality of

The US military pumps over 700 million rounds of ammunition, or some 2,000 tonnes of lead into the environment every year during training. The metal pollutes the water supply and poisons the

increasing silt load and spreading nets of prawn culturists are slowly throttling Chilka, Asia's biggest salt water lake spread over 1,100-sq-km. It is estimated that rivers and rivulets such as

A global positioning system (gps) receiver, a laptop computer and some software can be used to

Humans suffer from an inherent disadvantage in using a computer: both hands are occupied with the keyboards and a person is unable to operate a mouse at the same time. So Sun Microsystems of

As efforts to control the fires that have ravaged jungles and grasslands in Central America fail miserably, the misery mounts

Yashwant Sinha s budget threatens to destroy the quality of urban air and endanger the lives of millions in Indian cities

Why do siblings fight with each other? A look at the science behind this universally common behaviour