Hobson's choice

The Uttar Pradesh government's proposal to shift the Lucknow zoo stirs a hornet's nest

Budget blues

The finance minister's money bag may emerge as the commoner's bete noir

Reptilian riddle

The last of the dinosaurs could have inhabited parts of central India

Spare parts

Scientists produce human tissues from human embryos and fetuses

Electric car

A "zero-emission" electric car will be commercially produced by the year 2000

Christmas shock

A variant of the Melissa virus is set to strike computers on December 25

New heavenly body

Astronomers discover a tiny moon

Virus check

The FBI finally arrests the person who started E-mail computer virus Melissa

Precaution ban

Lawsuits related to the Y2K bug are banned in four US states

Galactic census

There are 125 billion galaxies in the Universe

Sans saline

Gujarat plans to set up desalination plants to tide over the state's water crisis

Rooting out biopiracy

Venezuelan project aims to protect indigenous plant database

Greens corner US energy agencies

Move court against government's trivialising global warming issue

Wet vengeance

Move to revoke Indus treaty

Cotton debate

India's green light to Bt cotton opens up a whole new can of worms

Green order has brewers frothing

German drinks industry protests move to spur recycling of containers

Gearing up

Sri Lanka mulls roadmap to combat air pollution

Speed of gravity = Speed of light

More nuclear freedom for Brazil

Yukos' loss is ONGC's gain

Chinese particle invasion

'Renewing' energy practices

First step to control: legalisation

USEPA's ethical faux pas

Further endangered