Zagreb: Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.
Now, unlikely heroes may be coming to the rescue to prevent similar tragedies: sugar-craving honeybees. Croatian researchers are training them to find unexploded mines littering their country and the rest of the Balkans.
When Croatia joins the European Union on July 1, in addition to the beauty of its aquamarine Adriatic sea, deep blue mountain lakes and lush green forests, it will also bring numerous un-cleared minefields to the bloc's territory. About 750 square kilometers (466 square miles) are still suspected to be filled with mines from the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
Nikola Kezic, an expert on the behavior of honeybees, sat quietly together with a group of young researchers on a recent day in a large net tent filled with the buzzing insects on a grass field lined with acacia trees. The professor at Zagreb University outlined the idea for the experiment: Bees have a perfect sense of smell that can quickly detect the scent of the explosives. They are being trained to identify their food with the scent of TNT....
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07:40 AM, May 20, 2013
Kolkata: Promising Deepika Kumari was done in by some sheer class of more experienced opponents as she settled for two silver medals, including one with Jayanta Talukdar, to help India finish fourth in the Archery World Cup Stage 1 that concluded in Shanghai Sunday. Pitted against Ok-Hee Yun, a team Olympic champion and individual bronze medallist in Beijing 2008, Deepika took a 4-2 lead but the Korean showed amazing resilience...
05:55 PM, May 19, 2013
Let me begin this post by saying, I LOVE JEFFREY ARCHER. What could be more wonderful than reading the latest book of your favourite author on the World Book Day. Well, that's what I was doing most of the day today and just finished reading the book-3 of The Clifton Chronicles series which is the most prestigious project of the author. Best Kept Secret was one book that I have...
05:29 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Jamshedpur: L Bombayla Devi of Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) and Rajiv Basumatary of Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) emerged champions at the 2nd National Ranking Archery Tournament in Women and Men's recurve section at JRD Tata Sports Complex here on Sunday. They defeated top ranked Deepika Kumar and Atanu Das of Steel Plant Sports Board (SPSB). Olympians Jyanta Talukdar (SPSB) brushed aside Rahul Banerjee (RSPB) 6-2 in the men's...
01:05 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Jamshedpur: The National Ranking Archery Tournament (NRAT), beginning here from Friday, will hold significance for the archers as the Indian team for the upcoming Stage I and II World Cup will be picked based on their performance in the event. The Stage I World Cup will be held in Shanghai from May 13, followed by the second stage in Turkey in June, said Capt. Amitabh, Head (Sports) Tata Steel. The...
02:09 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Some of India's top archers, including Rahul Banerjee and Deepika Kumari, will vie for top honours at the two-day 2nd National Ranking Archery Tournament. ...
07:14 PM, Apr 03, 2013
VK Malhotra is accused of vested interest in deliberately delaying the process of getting India's ban from Olympics. ...
06:49 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The writer is in India to launch his new book, 'Best Kept Secret', the third in the Clifton Chronicles series. ...
12:49 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The eight medals included two gold, two silver and four bronze, in the first Asian Grand Prix Archery Championship. ...
12:24 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Indian archers Rahul Banerjee won the silver medal while Atanu Das bagged bronze in the Recurve men's individual event at the Asian Grand Prix on Thursday after the men's Compound team's gold-winning effort on Tuesday. ...
02:40 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A regular feature in the bestseller lists, and now a regular feature in India, Jeffrey Archer was in Mumbai to launch his latest 'Best Kept Secret'. ...
06:40 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Researchers of different faculties like medicine, engineering and pharmacy should work together for developing medical systems, devices and equipment at an affordable cost, former President APJ Kalam, said on Sunday. ...
01:24 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Top archers got a shot in the arm after the government decided to appoint Korean coach Lim Chae Woong for the recurve team. ...
10:07 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The archers hope to make an appeal through their players' association as the season is all set to get underway in a couple of months time. ...
04:01 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Japanese researchers have developed a new talking fork that speaks different words and plays bizarre sounds while a person eats. The fork contains a micro controller, a speaker, amplifier and battery within its handle, and generates a variety of sounds depending on the type of food being eaten. ...
11:01 AM, Dec 30, 2012
The best Olympics medal haul ever by India was undone by IOA bosses who led to the association's suspension. ...
12:59 PM, Dec 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Archery Association of India (AAI) has got a shot in the arm after the World Archery Federation (FITA) extended recognition to its elections and extended full support to it. FITA's decision has come as a big boost as AAI was de-recognised by the Sports Ministry, who had said that the Federation did not conform to the Sports Code of the Government of India while holding its election....
03:57 PM, Dec 09, 2012
The sports minister Friday took the bold decision to de-recognise India's amateur boxing and archery federations because of their faulty electoral process. ...
11:48 PM, Dec 07, 2012
The sports ministry de-recognised the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation and the Archery Association of India on Friday for their unclean electoral process. ...
11:37 PM, Dec 07, 2012
