This is a good bioenhancer

Drumstick molecule increases absorption of drugs

Grow your vegetables

Amol Kalan Paschim, a nutrition-secure village

The herbal coming!

An Indian research institute has developed a herbal insecticide and a neem-based insect repellent

Using urea

40 km for Rs 5

Indian scientists design a bike engine that runs on air

Drug booster

Anti-fungal medicine can make malaria drugs deadlier

Fruits of science

An Indian research institute is in the process of developing a banana variety with a longer shelf-life

FARMERS PLIGHT

'Television had promised rain'

RAMESH YADAV, migrant auto driver, converses with NITIN SETHI on drought, media, politics and migration

Pulled up for LAXITY

Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

Smog envelops India's smaller cities

A recent release from the Central Pollution Control Board, Parivesh, January 2003, presents deadly facts about air pollution levels in Indian …

Toxic spread

Arsenic contamination detected in Lucknow

Tannery workers in Kanpur risk DNA damage

Trivalent chromium, widely used in tanning industry, and thought to be harmless found to be the culprit

All cracked up

Teak rings uncover rainfall data

Gomti river is almost dead

Recently the banks of river Gomti in Lucknow were unusually abuzz. Some people were struggling to wade through the 'sewage-enriched' river to …

Tannery convicted

No need to make cellphone tower radiation norms more stringent, says government panel

Committee appointed on court's directions dismisses concerns over health impacts of EMF radiations, but calls for more studies on it

Dead end for diesel buses

Polluting public transport vehicles sent packing as apex court refuses to extend green makeover deadline

Breathing uneasy

Threat from occupational exposure to pollutants, especially to young children and pregnant women, is growing rapidly. There is no time for …

World population touches 7 billion

Ten billionth baby likely by end of the century if population growth continues at current rate

In Short

Political parties use rural health mission scam stick to beat Mayawati government

Bahujan Samaj Party leader defiant blames UPA for the mess

Monument to hunger

The 1784 famine of Lucknow region and a nawab's philanthropic gesture gave us a magnificent monument