
July 08, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JULY 7: The name evokes images of dead elephants, chopped trees and bloodied guns. But, bizarre as it may sound, a recent scie...
Thu, Jul 08, 1999
July 03, 1999 00:00 IST
After the last launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in May, which carried two foreign satellites, it was understood that I...
Sat, Jul 03, 1999
June 23, 1999 00:00 IST
BANGALORE, JUNE 22: India could have, perhaps, detected the intrusions in Kargil if it had a spy satellite in place. The Indian Space Res...
Wed, Jun 23, 1999
June 23, 1999 00:00 IST
BANGALORE, JUNE 22: India could have, perhaps, detected the intrusions in Kargil if it had a spy satellite in place. The Indian Space Res...
Wed, Jun 23, 1999
June 19, 1999 00:00 IST
BANGALORE, JUNE 18: The world's highest telescope at Hanle in Ladakh is not going to be ready in time. It is the latest casualty of the c...
Sat, Jun 19, 1999
May 23, 1999 00:00 IST
BANGALORE, MAY 22: The chance finding of a meteorite at Piplia Kalan village in the Thar Desert three years ago by local journalist Chama...
Sun, May 23, 1999
May 12, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 11: Today may have been the anniversary of Pokharan II but what caused more excitement in the scientific community was cha...
Wed, May 12, 1999
May 07, 1999 00:00 IST
New Delhi, May 6: There is hope on the horizon for diabetics: researchers have identified a new form of insulin, which could in future be...
Fri, May 07, 1999
March 24, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 23: You can't call anyone ``bird-brained'' any longer. That could mean the person is even more intelligent than you.Pune...
Wed, Mar 24, 1999
March 14, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 13: Using nothing more than plain old vinegar and a trained eye, researchers say they can now safely detect cervical can...
Sun, Mar 14, 1999
March 07, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 6: Diplomacy on the move seems to be the in-thing in India. Close on the heels of the ``bus diplomacy'' undertaken by Pr...
Sun, Mar 07, 1999
March 02, 1999 00:00 IST
New Delhi, March 1: Good news for working moms, bad news for those who whine about working moms. A recent American psychiatric study, bas...
Tue, Mar 02, 1999
March 01, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Feb 28: Startling new evidence suggests that heart attacks or chronic heart disease (CHD) could also be precipitated as a resu...
Mon, Mar 01, 1999
January 15, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 14: Citing post-Pokharan sanctions, Washington has denied permission to eight senior American physicists to participate in...
Fri, Jan 15, 1999
January 03, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 2: For the first time, a top Government official has said that India needs to allow patenting of genes to protect intellec...
Sun, Jan 03, 1999
December 29, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 28: Unknown to many, the ``terminator gene patent'' has actually been filed in India. A recent patent search by the Depart...
Tue, Dec 29, 1998
December 20, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 19: The Government has as last woken up to set standards for plastics but so pervasive is their use that trying to ban the...
Sun, Dec 20, 1998
December 16, 1998 00:00 IST
The debate over the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) might just be swinging towards India signing up, but in tandem has emerged a rat...
Wed, Dec 16, 1998
December 16, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 15: There are two Indians who are contributing immensely to the disarmament of Iraq. One is former Indian bureaucrat Praka...
Wed, Dec 16, 1998
December 10, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 9: The initial euphoria of the nuclear blasts may have died down but there's a quiet introspection going on in the scienti...
Thu, Dec 10, 1998
December 04, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 3: Under pressure from scientists, animal rights activist and Minister Maneka Gandhi has backtracked on the issue of anima...
Fri, Dec 04, 1998
November 26, 1998 00:00 IST
India is siting atop not one but two lethal A-bombs. One is the all too familiar atom bomb, signals from which shook the globe this May. The...
Thu, Nov 26, 1998
November 19, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Nov 18: There couldn't have been a worse birthday present. When experts gather tomorrow to celebrate Project Tiger's silver jubil...
Thu, Nov 19, 1998
November 11, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Nov 10: America has done it again. Even as the world debates-for the nth time- global warming and climate change at a UN conferen...
Wed, Nov 11, 1998
November 02, 1998 00:00 IST
Homegrown vaccines are still a novelty in India. And yet, all vaccine research and development in the country is likely come to a grinding h...
Mon, Nov 02, 1998

