<p>One of the major events organized by the Ministry of Urban Development is the Urban Mobility Conference held in New Delhi in the first week of December each year. The theme of the latest conference held on 3rd, 4th and 5th of December 2010 at the Grand Hotel, New Delhi was “Sustainable Urban Transport: Accessibility and Inclusive Cities”.
...or how the ethical minefield of biotechnology has grown over time
Thousands of industrial units in parts of Haryana are clandestinely discarding untreated effluents into aquifers, irreversibly damaging groundwater.
Industry pundits predict that greater decentralisation for the drug sector will raise production to three times the present level in less than a decade. Higher costs will, of course, be the price the common person will have to pay
A ban on insecticides in the US may throw up more problems than it seeks to solve. The sufferers will include children suffering from asthma
The development of birth control methods that use the body's immune system may be more convenient than condoms and pills. But several groups warn against the unknown dangers of such methods.
Scientists are exploring various approaches to fight the deadliest cancer afflicting US women.
Papua New Guinea has come a long way from a society that began cultivating crops in 8000 BC and had no need for a market economy. It came in touch with the outside world just about 100 years ago. Today, it exports minerals and imports food. The people com
FOOD INSECURITY ATLAS OF RURAL INDIA . FOOD INSECURITY ATLAS OF URBAN INDIA . M S Swaminathan Research Foundation . World Food Programme . 2001 and 2002 "Indian famines are famines of work, not of
A proposed power generation project in Laos has become the target of environmentalists ire
Industrialised countries uneasy at the prospect of a shift from traditional political rights for the individual to rights that link communities and the environment?
Rapid strides in Western medicine and surgery relegated Indian medical systems to the back seat, especially because of brahmanical abhorrence of human dissection.
This last fortnight, after two disparate experiences, I came to realise there is not much difference between colas and cars. Let me explain how. A year ago, we released a study on the cocktail
Geographical Information Systems is revolutionising the present and portend a happier future. Or so we hope in the maps of our minds.
As the world increasingly resorts to natural, plant derived cures for illnesses, the wealth of India's traditional medicinal systems lies virtually untapped because of poor research and development and marketing.
A journalist without the pretensions of a scientist that's how JOHN MADDOX, editor of Nature for 15 years, would like to see himself. On his recent tour of India, Maddox talked to SUMANTA PAL on what went wrong with science and scientific establishment
Every year, the World Bank channels about US $18-20 billion to developing countries in the form of loans and grants with the ostensible aim of reducing poverty and promoting economic growth. The bank
The search for easily applicable environment-friendly plant protection technologies could very well find its answer in the pages of history
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Today, sutures and staples are outdated methods to seal an incision
