New Delhi, May 24 (PTI) The SDMC today claimed that it has become the "first" civic body in the country to generate solar energy by installing panels over rooftops of its over 55 buildings and earn a huge
Ill-informed MPs, scare-mongering NGOs and a sensationalist media have raked up the Basmati rice patent controversy yet again. It is being claimed that the US has granted a patent for Basmati to
A dreaded weed perks up the depressed economy of a hill village.Considered among the 10 worst weeds in the world, Lantana camara seemed to have overrun Lachhiwala village, 24 km from state capital
Sweating could keep your body germ-free. A German study reported in Nature Immunology shows that sweat contains an antibiotic protein called dermicidin. It is the first antimicrobial compound to be
The Supreme Court directive banning smoking sparks a debate on the definition of public places.The Supreme Court's ban on smoking in public places does not extend to roads. In its verdict delivered
The recent furore over genetically modified (GM) Bt-cotton grown illegally in Gujarat brought home, literally, the worldwide debate on the issue. Proponents of GM technology insist it is safe, and
Every day, 40 million people across the world are administered an injection. According to the World Health Organisation, re-use of contaminated syringes causes about 10 million new infections every
With its record share of droughts and high temperature, 2001 is set to be the second warmest year since records began in 1860. The World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva, has estimated the
Conservationists were ecstatic when the Union Ministry of Environment, alarmed by the depleting population of sharks off the Country's coast, included all varieties of shark in schedule one of the
It's unlikely that a faceless village with narrow dirt tracks and open sewerage can attract visitors, but Soran in Khurda district always has. One reason is that it barely goes unnoticed lying as it
Deep in Orissa's interior, in the Kalahandi district notorious for periodic starvation deaths, all Chaituram Majhi has for company is despair. First he lost a daughter to malaria. Then his wife died
