The Oscars are going green. That doesn't mean that it's doing away with the famous red carpet or the gold statuette. It's just that come Sunday night's Oscar bash, the world's most famous film awards will be environmentally conscious like never... More

Chinese enterprises that violate environmental protection rules will find it hard to secure bank loans, according to the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA). Zhang Lijun, vice director of SEPA said that it would blacklist... More

NASA scientists were able to analyse the makeup of distant planets in other solar systems using a technique that could one day be used to find life on other planets Teams of scientists used the space-based Spitzer infrared telescope to measure... More

Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Thursday inaugurated a 850,000 sq ft building at Kerala's Technopark, taking its total built-up area to 2.2 million sq ft and making it India's largest IT park. The new building - Tejaswini - has 12... More

The Delhi High Court Thursday asked Jammu and Kashmir's Chief Wildlife Warden A.K. Srivastava to explain why did he allow Hindi film producer Akbar Khan to shoot his magnum opus `Taj Mahal' using animals in extremely cold conditions in 2004. A... More

The Intel India Development Centre (IIDC) has co-developed the world's first teraflops research chip for building the next generation of high-end computers and servers to deliver supercomputer-like performance. The 80-core chip, which is less... More

Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to take fresh steps to address the problem of snakebites, which claimed over 5,000 lives in the state alone last year. "We have established an exclusive Snakebite Task Force (STF) comprising Dr... More

After travelling more than 60 hours, the first Sumatran rhinoceros born in captivity in more than 100 years arrived in its native Indonesian island home Wednesday to take part in a breeding programme to help save the endangered species from... More

It is a question of 2.4 million empty plastic bottles dumped on a helpless city, and Varanasi, the cultural capital of India, doesn't even have regular garbage collection! The Hindu holy city along the Ganges attracts roughly 2.5 million... More

Now you can win a chance to become an astronaut under rules of a competition launched by a German carmaker in a bid to promote its new model. The winner will be blasted 100 km above Earth in a small rocket plane designed exclusively for space... More