Voluntary pollution-reduction programs touted by the Bush administration as part of the solution to global warming have “limited potential” to reduce...

Expanding on a program that has saved and prolonged the lives of millions in Africa alone, the House prepared Thursday to pass and send to President Bush legislation...

The Department of Posts has started a pilot project, christened ”Arrow,” in which about 200 post offices would be e-enabled so that these can act as the ‘Window...

Assam has earned the dubious distinction of being the most corrupt State in the country, on the basis of corruption in 11 vital services. Corruption level was alarming...

Scientists are racing to perfect greener sources of energy to improve the environment and reduce dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. Some predict a hydrogen...

The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and...

This presents photographs (listed below) that show the Vedic influence found in such buildings as the Taj Mahal, Red Fort, and other structures in India. It also...

A New Caste– .Com If we will go back few years from now and compare the world at that time and what it is now, we will see we have come a long way in short span...

I once met a woman with an unearthly beautiful smile. She did not understand this poem when I gave it to her. Perhaps you will. Poetry is so personal, so intimate,...

Is it a long, long way to Tipperary? Don’t know if you’re on the path to Bath?

“It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.” By Ben Koot, CIO TimeDesk A year ago I started the VT Bunabumali challenge with nothing...

NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft’s point of view 31 million...

Sir Salman Rushdie has struck up a close friendship with actress Riya Sen, it has been reported. The Mail Online said the 61-year-old author met the actress in...

There were/are plenty prophesies threatening the Earth with the end of the world in the nearest feature around-and this BBC story of The Green New Deal Group is, one...

The Manipur government today decided to form an all-woman force to combat ,child, “kidnappings” — believed to be the handiwork of militant outfits for recruitment...

Oil prices climb and it appears that nobody cares about finding a solution to the problem, the planet needs to find ways to confront this new era of energy crisis and...

Mr. Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, came out with a detailed reply to the opposition’s charges on the government over the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. The...

In what might be termed as a policy shift in the ‘outlook’ of President Bush towards Iraq, Iran and North Korea, leaving few Republicans go red-faced while...

In the recent past no other foreign policy issue has generated as much political heat and debate as the Indo-US nuclear deal. However, in the maze of conflicting...

The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries in terms of the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and...