None for the plunge

Neem: the patent serial

Standard tests

Toolmaker crows

Wilted concerns

A recently proposed environmental evaluation smacks of evasive tactics

Brazil backs dubious project

Antarctic odessey

Positive move

Kerala to set up biodiversity board

Nicole, the prehistoric

A dealer of rare fossils says he has found a dinosaur egg containing an intact embryo

Exploring the deep

An Indian scientist was part of an expedition to explore a new world on the ocean floor

Paper tigers

It is now the turn of the tiger to be saved by legislators

Alive, but a hostage

NGO leader Sanjoy Ghosh, abducted by Assamese separatists, is reported to be alive

Poor gift

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

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