 | Orissa's renowned Bhitarkanika sanctuary has added 28 crocodiles in the last year to reach an impressive total of 1,482.
The crocodile census in the national park in the coastal district of Kendrapada, about 170 km from here, was conducted by... More |
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 | Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, the first person of Indian descent to take a stroll in space, is all set to become the world's most experienced woman space walker.
Starting with an outing at 8:30 a.m. IST Thursday, flight engineer... More |
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 | Microsoft launched the consumer version of its Windows Vista operating system, choosing the bright lights of Times Square to debut the most expensive software programme in the world which took five years and $7 billion to develop.
"It is a... More |
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 | The freak warm weather for the past week or so in this Himalayan resort town has everyone worried, particularly farmers and those in the tourism trade.
"The normal temperature in January varies between 2 to 9 degrees Celsius in Shimla. But for... More |
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 | Britain's Crown Prince Charles, on a whirlwind US tour with his wife Camilla, received an award here for his work on environmental policies.
Prince Charles received the Global Environmental Citizen Award, given by Harvard Medical School, Sunday... More |
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 | In a major victory for green activists and a defeat for the West Bengal's communist government, the Calcutta High Court Monday refused permission to the Publishers and Booksellers' Guild to hold the 32nd Kolkata Book Fair at the Maidan... More |
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 | India will soon have two research institutions that will provide alternatives to experimentation on live animals.
A National Cell Science Centre would be set up during the 11th Five-Year Plan 2007-12 as part of an institute of alternatives to... More |
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 | Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, has announced it has achieved breakthroughs in transistor design that could be the greatest advances in the field in last 40 years.
The new chips, which Intel expects to deliver to the market by the... More |
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Blogs are a buzzword in cyberspace currently but no one seems sure exactly on how many India actually has. While listings put the figure at a few hundred blogs, an upcoming contest for bloggers claims the number of "active" bloggers to be as high... More |
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 | The use of animals in experiments for India's drug and cosmetics industry and ways to reduce it will be under the spotlight at a gathering of international experts here from Monday.
The European Union, which 20 years ago began legislating to... More |
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