Freak climate in North India may damage crops; fears of El Nino phenomenon rising

Snowfall in the middle of March; heavy showers in the drying-up phase of the monsoon; catastrophic floods before the rainy season; searing heat in parts of south India &mda...

Global Warming and Potential Water Contamination Resulting from Fracking for Hydrocarbons

Contaminated water, presumed to be from drilling into and fracturing (fracking) hydrocarbon-bearing rock strata, has been in the news for some time now. And so have global ...

Pharrell Williams Auctions Off Amazing Grammys Hat For Charity

If looking like Smoky the Bear is on your fashion must-have list for spring, head over to eBay and bid on Pharrell Williams’ famous hat from the 2014 Grammys. The muc...

Telling The Story Of The Birth Of A Nation Is Never Easy: Shyam Benegal

Mumbai:

  Feb, 2014: “Telling the story of the birth of a nation is never e...

Kunal Kapoor's portal to work for animal welfare, environment

Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) Actor Kunal Kapoor’s online crowd-fund raising portal “Ketto” will focus on gathering contributions for animal welfare and environm...

Govt to release Rs 13,000cr for Green India Mission

CHENNAI: The Union cabinet will soon sanction 13,000 crore for the initial phase of the 10-yearGreen India Mission to increase forest cover and quality of forests in the co...

Geranium root is potent HIV-1 killer

Washington: A new study has found that extracts of the geranium plant Pelargonium sidoides inactivate human immunodeficiency virus type 1(HIV-1) and prevent the virus from ...

Who said playing games is waste of time?

Throughout the last twenty or thirty years, parents around the world have been putting limitations on the amount of time their children spend playing games. Many a times, p...

Black carbon in air a worry, say scientists

PUNE: The amount of black carbon or soot, a potential cancer-causing substance, has been gradually increasing over Pune city since 2005, shows a study conducted by the Indi...