Apr 8 2008
Ahmedabad, April 08: The special investigation team (SIT), constituted by the Supreme Court to investigate 14 post-Godhra riots cases of 2002, commenced their investigation by visiting Naroda Patia and Gulbarg Society today.
Apr 8 2008
London, April 08: Highly skilled Indian workers in the UK on Tuesday won a landmark judgement when the High Court ruled that it was “not open” to the government altering the terms and conditions of an old scheme under which thousands of such...
Apr 7 2008
New Delhi, April 07: A 10-member Indian Navy team is just 40 km away from reaching the North Pole and in the process become the first Indians to have skied to both the poles and also climbed Mount Everest. “The (Monday) morning report suggests that...
Apr 7 2008
Paris, April 06: French officials were forced to extinguish the Olympic torch in the middle of its relay through the city and put it on a bus at least twice on Monday, after violent protests by demonstrators protesting China’s human rights record...
Apr 7 2008
You can supplement your regular diet with super health foods that not only provide complete nourishment but also have healing and rejuvenating properties If you aren’t one of those health freaks, the number of super health foods flooding the...
Apr 7 2008
If current CO2 emission trends continue, the oceans will become so acidic that corals will cease to thrive, says a report issued on June 30 by the U.K.’s Royal Society. It explains that, in the past 200 years, the average pH of the surface seawater...
Apr 7 2008
The shark has changed little in more than 300 million years in the earth’s oceans. Classified as fish (Pisces), sharks are among the oldest creatures on our planet. Sharks differ from most fish because their skeletons consist of soft, flexible...
Apr 7 2008
Some of the oxygen we breathe today is being produced because of viruses infecting micro-organisms in the world’s oceans, scientists heard April 2, 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting.
Apr 7 2008
Coral reefs could be dying out because of changes to the microbes that live in them just as much as from the direct rise in temperature caused by global warming, according to scientists speaking April 2, 2008 at the Society for General...
Apr 7 2008
New research has dealt a blow to the skeptics who argue that climate change is all due to cosmic rays rather than to man-made greenhouse gases. The new evidence shows no reliable connection between the cosmic ray intensity and cloud cover.