The coffee table book by Kamal Bawa and Sandesh Kadur 'Himalaya: Mountains of Life' takes you on a unique journey. ...
04:35 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Ali Tauqueer Sheikh, Director Asia, Climate and Development Knowledge Network talks about the significance of having special focus development of developing nations. ...
06:31 PM, Jan 31, 2013
The Dal Lake in Kashmir is completely frozen. Poonch has witnessed the lowest recorded temperature in 35 years. And across north India, the weather became bone-chilling. In Chandigarh, the mercury dipped to -2.1, Delhi shivered at 1.9 and Hissar in Haryana was cold at -0.8 degree centigrade. ...
07:26 PM, Jan 07, 2013
What gives desserts their texture? Or what makes paints durable? For Dr Ashish Lele, the answers lie at the microscopic level. At the National Chemical Laboratories, Pune, he has been exploring how molecular structures influence the properties of soft materials. ...
11:43 AM, Jan 05, 2013
The youngest person to win Infosys Prize for Mathematical Sciences for 2012 is a mathematics wizard Dr Manjul Bhargava. While many fear mathematics, Dr Bhargava came up with a mathematical formula at a mere age of eight. ...
10:30 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Often in a market, buyers don't know the true value of a product, and sellers may not know how much a customer can really pay. So how does one trade in such a scenario? Dr Arunava Sen, economist and winner of the Infosys Prize, may have some answers. He has spent years analysing how buyers and sellers behave in auctions and other businesses where key information is often kept hidden....
10:19 AM, Dec 31, 2012
In the run up to the new year, CNN-IBN is taking a look back to the hottest trends of 2012. So who was the most searched celebrity or which music video got the maximum views? ...
10:12 AM, Dec 28, 2012
New Delhi: It's the day after Diwali on Wednesday and the pollution control board will release it's data on pollution levels. Experts have warned that crackers would add to toxin levels in the atmosphere and cause the smog around the National Capital Region to return. People in the national capital celebrated Diwali with a loud bang. While the Supreme Court had in 2005 put a ban on the use of...
08:02 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: The air pollution in the national capital has reached alarming levels. The grey-white 'haze' that has been covering the city since October 28, say experts, is actually smog that is linked to the rapid rise in particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide levels. A high level meeting of three states Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh that was chaired by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in NCR has come up...
09:39 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Mangar: A 500-acre sacred forest preserved over centuries in the concrete jungle of Faridabad, Haryana - the Mangar Bani in the Aravallis - is home to several native species, including about 30 endangered plants. The Haryana government, however, has marked out the area for development in its draft masterplans. Naturalist Pradip Kishen, however, says that this would be a disaster. "If you get rid of this huge area as recharge...
08:03 AM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: Kite flying, especially on Independence Day, may be a tradition, but it leaves hundreds of birds dead every year. However, now they have some hope as two brothers from Old Delhi have become their saviours. Nadeem Shehzaad and his NGO 'Wildlife Rescue' have treated over three thousand injured birds in the last eight years. Nadeem blames the use of the maanjha - or the glass-coated string used in...
08:17 AM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: Taming a wild elephant is not easy. Neither for the tamer, nor for the animal itself. The elephant is first chained and then mercilessly beaten till it gives in. However, the Environment Ministry has given the West Bengal government permission to do precisely this. An RTI application filed by CNN-IBN revealed that the Environment Ministry gave the go-ahead for the capture of four wild elephants that had been...
09:55 AM, Jul 28, 2012
New Delhi: Life is tough, for 56-year-old Pratima Devi, who lives in a parking lot in the national capital and earns a living as a ragpicker. Yet, she's doing her bit to help street dogs. She has literally played mother to over 70 stray dogs. "I have been here for the past 28 years and I have been taking care of these dogs... I stay awake the whole night to...
08:25 AM, Jul 27, 2012
The Supreme Court on Tuesday put a halt on tourism in core areas, which are the breeding areas of tigers. ...
09:30 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Just four hours away from Kolkata lies a completely different world - that of the Sundarbans. It's a part of the massive estuarine delta that ...
05:25 PM, May 08, 2012
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