
January 09, 2003 00:00 IST
Child prodigy, overhyped son of an ambitious father with weird ideas, child blunder... At 15, Tathagat Avatar Tulsi has been through all of ...
Thu, Jan 09, 2003
January 05, 2003 00:00 IST
China is just months away from putting a man in space, leaving India miles back. Dr Guo Baozhu, vice administrator of the China National Spa...
Sun, Jan 05, 2003
October 03, 2002 00:00 IST
Top physicists, including the chairman of the University Grants Commission, have demanded immediate action against the Vice-Chancellor of Ku...
Thu, Oct 03, 2002
September 12, 2002 00:00 IST
Even if you buy Nitish Kumar’s sabotage or Railway Board chairman’s ISI theory, there’s one way the Rajdhani tragedy could st...
Thu, Sep 12, 2002
September 04, 2002 00:00 IST
What do you do when the stork, ‘‘worldwide courier of new babies and symbol of birth’’, starts losing its own babies? In...
Wed, Sep 04, 2002
August 25, 2002 00:00 IST
A new place was born last week on India’s telecom map. The Information Superhighway reached Anini last Sunday, even though the highway ...
Sun, Aug 25, 2002
July 28, 2002 00:00 IST
What does no rain in Delhi in July have to do with atmospheric pressure over Argentina in April? Or the amount of snow in the entire Eurasia...
Sun, Jul 28, 2002
July 26, 2002 00:00 IST
The current Indian drought may be directly linked to the larger climate change that is affecting the globe, feels R K Pachauri, chief of the...
Fri, Jul 26, 2002
July 11, 2002 00:00 IST
One May night this year, with an eight-hour-old baby, Sunitha, steadily sinking in front of him and with no further tested medication availa...
Thu, Jul 11, 2002
July 07, 2002 00:00 IST
IN a stunning revelation, American bioweapon experts have uncovered that the former Soviet Union not only weaponised an Indian strain of sma...
Sun, Jul 07, 2002
July 04, 2002 00:00 IST
An utterly swadeshi project which has the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s backing has got the ultimate stamp of approval. The United States has...
Thu, Jul 04, 2002
July 03, 2002 00:00 IST
The vitamin-rich ‘golden rice’ variety has some healthy competition: scientists at the International Crops Research Institute of t...
Wed, Jul 03, 2002
June 27, 2002 00:00 IST
As Ministers Maneka Gandhi and C P Thakur squabbled over the use of animals in experiments, animal houses and firms were, on a quieter note,...
Thu, Jun 27, 2002
May 15, 2002 00:00 IST
In a rare show of unanimity, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and Leader of the Opposition Sonia Gandhi recently spoke the same language on the ...
Wed, May 15, 2002
May 10, 2002 00:00 IST
May you not be the mother of a hundred sons. A study by a team of European researchers has shown that mothers pay a heavier price for bearin...
Fri, May 10, 2002
May 02, 2002 00:00 IST
A Mumbai-born, US-based scientist and his colleagues have developed the technological equivalent of the legendary piper who made rats dance ...
Thu, May 02, 2002
April 21, 2002 00:00 IST
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) plans to install a solar power plant at the Taj Mahal so that the sensitive pollution monitoring eq...
Sun, Apr 21, 2002
April 15, 2002 00:00 IST
A team of international researchers headed by a non-resident Indian, Dr Ajit Varki, has shed light on why chimpanzees and humans which are g...
Mon, Apr 15, 2002
April 15, 2002 00:00 IST
No need to panic but the AIDS virus may have been born closer home than you think. Research by an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) ...
Mon, Apr 15, 2002
April 09, 2002 00:00 IST
An international team of scientists has unveiled the near complete genome sequence of the first crop plant, rice, which feeds half of the wo...
Tue, Apr 09, 2002
January 13, 2001 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 12: A baby monkey carrying an extra bit of DNA may suggest a way to speed new treatments for a host of disabling and fatal ...
Sat, Jan 13, 2001
December 26, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 25: An Indian scientist has finally come up with definitive evidence that the origin of the universe was a single, large bi...
Tue, Dec 26, 2000
November 27, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 26: Vital data on infectious and communicable diseases has been stolen along with the hard disks on which it was store...
Mon, Nov 27, 2000
November 17, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 15: Scientists working at the premier Indian laboratory, the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Goa, have fou...
Fri, Nov 17, 2000
November 04, 2000 00:00 IST
New Delhi, November 3: Give your teenager the mobile phone he's been pestering you for. A new British study finds that it might do the tee...
Sat, Nov 04, 2000




