
December 23, 2005 01:17 IST
A year after the devastating tsu-nami of December 26, 2004, India is moving to put in place its very own tsunami-warning system, for which ...
Fri, Dec 23, 2005
October 10, 2005 01:59 IST
There is a little known but important umbilical linkage between the monitoring of nuclear bombs and earthquakes and it is this cryptic conne...
Mon, Oct 10, 2005
September 14, 2005 01:50 IST
A long-term study spanning 15 years has shown that television viewing is linked to increased childhood obesity.With just anecdotal evidence ...
Wed, Sep 14, 2005
August 12, 2005 02:52 IST
An international team — including Indian scientists — on a giant 10-nation project, have for the first time sequenced the entire g...
Fri, Aug 12, 2005
July 24, 2005 00:00 IST
There is some good news for India’s space programme that has got obscured by the nuclear deal with the US. The US administration is goi...
Sun, Jul 24, 2005
July 07, 2005 02:20 IST
In a move that will redefine weather forecasting in India, the country has decided to dump the old home-grown statistical model currently in...
Thu, Jul 07, 2005
July 02, 2005 02:27 IST
Scientists at a Pune lab have found a way of producing cheap and clean drinking water from contaminated water by using a membrane as filter....
Sat, Jul 02, 2005
June 14, 2005 03:30 IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that he wants Siachen to be declared a ‘‘peace mountain’’ has found an ec...
Tue, Jun 14, 2005
May 13, 2005 02:35 IST
In a discovery that could help rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists from Hyderabad have come up with startling evidence that I...
Fri, May 13, 2005
May 11, 2005 01:14 IST
Scientists from a partner laboratory of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have found the first signs of an avian influenza virus...
Wed, May 11, 2005
February 29, 2004 00:00 IST
May be the next India Shining ad you see will feature space! For, you may debate the moon mission but the Indian Space Research Organisation...
Sun, Feb 29, 2004
January 30, 2004 00:00 IST
A common painkiller used widely by both humans and in livestock may be behind the mysterious plunge in the number of vultures in South Asia,...
Fri, Jan 30, 2004
May 23, 2003 00:00 IST
A hard-hitting report put out by a team of top Indian and American scientists has concluded that ‘‘three decades of tiger monitori...
Fri, May 23, 2003
May 10, 2003 00:00 IST
Every school child is taught that the Earth’s core is a bubbling mass of molten magma simmering away at temperatures of over 6000 degre...
Sat, May 10, 2003
April 28, 2003 00:00 IST
Doyen of monsoon forecasting Dr Vachaspati Thapliyal seems to be the first major casualty of the monsoon forecasting revamp that has taken p...
Mon, Apr 28, 2003
April 12, 2003 00:00 IST
Veteran scientist M S Swaminathan has a serious grouse against Pepsi. It’s something that has got marine biologists worrying. The soft ...
Sat, Apr 12, 2003
April 07, 2003 00:00 IST
The countdown for eradication of polio from the globe by 2005 is on schedule, says Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, director general of the World H...
Mon, Apr 07, 2003
April 03, 2003 00:00 IST
In a significant development in its ambitious mission to moon, India has agreed to collaborate with Canada. The far-ranging memorandum of un...
Thu, Apr 03, 2003
March 15, 2003 00:00 IST
It's not widely known that Table Mountain, the famous backdrop to the World Cup Cricket being played in South Africa, is home to the endange...
Sat, Mar 15, 2003
February 12, 2003 00:00 IST
Four years after the massive decline in vulture population began, India has taken the first steps towards initiating a vulture recovery plan...
Wed, Feb 12, 2003
February 04, 2003 00:00 IST
An inquiry committee set up to investigate allegations of plagiarism against a research scholar and the Vice-Chancellor of Kumaon University...
Tue, Feb 04, 2003
February 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Kalpana Chawla’s death, in an exploding fireball, is tinged with irony. One of the last experiments conducted by her during the 16-day ...
Mon, Feb 03, 2003
January 28, 2003 00:00 IST
Visiting Iranian President Khatami is in for a surprise request from Indian scientists when he visits Hyderabad on Tuesday. Indian scientist...
Tue, Jan 28, 2003
January 22, 2003 00:00 IST
Nine research institutions from around the globe which are usually competitors launched an association called the Global Research Alliance (...
Wed, Jan 22, 2003
January 17, 2003 00:00 IST
Using flowing water, specialised carbon tubes and their abundant grey cells, a team of Indian scientists in Bangalore has generated electric...
Fri, Jan 17, 2003



