Installation of a vital electric transmission line to throw the surplus power from Chittagong into the national grid is in progress, but unlikely to be complete on time.

With their economy shattered, farmers of the cotton belt of Punjab have started selling their new tractors at rates much below the showroom prices for repaying old debts.

If the SNDT campus at Santa Cruz boasts of a bakul avenue, Dadar's Parsi Colony has a green canopy and Chowpatty has a little grove, it is largely bacause of the efforts of the Friends of Trees

Union Human Resource Development, Minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi today justified the Centre's decision to refuse Rs 12 million Japanese aid for cyclone victims of Gujarat amidst trade sanctions

India has signed a deal for supply of two light water reactors with Russia signalling a new beginning in the long awaited 2000 MW Kundankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu.

US astronomers have found a planet orbiting a star "Gilese 876", 15 light years away from earth. According to them, the planet is far closer to earth than any previously known extra-solar body

A claim by a local doctor over an 'AIDS medicine' led to a controversy with some professors in Andhra university here taking credit of inventing the medicine and attributing plagiarism to the doctor.

Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) R Chidambaram said at Mumbai on Saturday that India exported 100 tonnes of heavy water to South Korea recently for $20 million .

An economic rehabilitation scheme for the people affected by the World Bank funded water projects, aimed at improving the economic status of those living below the poverty line, is being implemented

At least 21 people have been killed and more than 100,000 stranded as torrential rains flooded many parts of southern China's Guangdong province, the state media reported on Saturday.The deaths