2009-10-11
Environmental activists chip away at our social conscience everyday hoping that we can stall, if not reverse, the damage that's been inflicted on the planet
2009-09-16
A global warming of two degrees Celsius the minimum the world is likely to experience could result in permanent GDP reductions of four-five percent for South Asia, warns a new World Bank report.
2009-09-14
Coming down heavily on state police chiefs for arbitrarily transferring senior officers, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Monday that many police personnel had been reduced to footballs, being kicked from one post to the other.
2009-08-05
A bit of daily yoga and meditation, combined with six weekly group sessions, can lower stress and improve sleep quality for sedentary office-goers, says a pilot study.
2009-07-29
With most division IV school teams being without a coach and not even bothering to practice, one-sided matches have reduced the tournament to a...
2009-07-20
The Delhi High Court Monday reduced the jail term of Sanjeev Nanda from five years to two for running over six people in his BMW car 10 years ago.
2009-07-06
Promising to halve poverty by 2014 and add 12 million jobs each year, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented general budget for this fiscal that hikes income tax exemption limit and steps up allocations for welfare schemes and infrastructure, while assuring high growth for the $1.2 trillion economy once again.
2009-06-10
A newly developed pollution-controlling machine, which is likely to cost Rs 5,000, brings down suspended particle matter per cubic metre drastically
2009-05-16
Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L K Advani was poised to win the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat by more than 100,000 votes.
2009-04-10
Usually, these areas face power cuts between three to six hours everyday. Load shedding is one of the major issues in these areas during the elections