The Centre has proposed to provide full financial support for setting up small hydel power projects in the North-Eastern State during the remaining period of the Ninth

The Bukit Suharto forest is dying, along with hundreds of thousands of hectares of adjoining jungle. This coastal stretch of southeast Bornea, on the edge of world's second-biggest rain forest, has

A report last week estimated that more than 100,000 hospital patients die in the United States each year from adverse drug reactions, more than from diabetes, pneumonia or many other serious

Measurements by one of the world's largest radio telescopes have detected peculiar bulges in the atmosphere of a giant star, which may be caused by huge plumes of gas thrust from beneath the star's

"Successful Aging" by John Rowe and Robert Kahn, is a book which summarizes a decade of solid research not wild speculation or extrapolation, conducted by 16 prestigious scientists among thousands of

Even as Anti-Animal Testing Day approaches on April 24, the city's animal rights' groups will join their counterparts in Delhi in denouncing the Delhi-based Ranbaxy pharmaceutical company for

An African disease -fighting campaign that has largely succeeded in controlling river blindness will be ravamped to include other afflictions, a UN official said yesterday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has identified the killers of Sanjoy Ghosh and announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh to those who would provide information about the accused. The accused belong

Frost can penetrate to a depth of 2m-3m, and as the ground thaws in the spring, its load-bearing capacity is reduced, threatening to damage buildings, roads and other structures. Insulation to reduce

The Tanzanian government has succumbed to donor pressure and challenged the terms of a controversial Malaysian power contract which jeopardised the country's $350m Songo gas project and threatened to