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Jacob P. Koshy 01:23 AM | November 27,2009
In the coming years, nuclear energy will break out of a strict government monopoly and gather pace with the help of private participation, including overseas companies
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Jacob P. Koshy 10:14 PM | November 17,2009
Currently, the Bill is with the law ministry, which is yet to approve it. Before the draft Bill is tabled in Parliament, it also requires clearance from the Union cabinet
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Jacob P. Koshy 11:53 PM | November 15,2009
Unknown to even most of its local population, Ghuttu hosts India’s first coordinated attempt at studying earthquake precursors--or warning signals to a coming earthquake
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Rina Chandran and Jacob P. Koshy 10:13 PM | November 11,2009
Commercial hub shuts early, fishermen stay home, cricket matches get cancelled and flights are delayed
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Jacob P. Koshy 10:36 PM | November 10,2009
A deep depresssion—a precursor to a cyclone—had formed about 470km west of Mangalore in Karnataka in the morning
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Jacob P. Koshy 11:40 PM | October 29,2009
Methane, in spite of being the second most prevalent GHGs in the atmosphere, is only about 0.4% by volume of the total carbon dioxide present
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Jacob P. Koshy 10:51 PM | October 23,2009
In the last one year, at least three of the country’s leading research institutes have either launched or are in the process of setting up dedicated centres that will be part of the Indian Network of Climate Change Assessment
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Jacob P. Koshy 10:35 PM | October 19,2009
Currently, IMD gives a seasonal forecast in April and revises it in June
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Jacob P. Koshy and Padmaparna Ghosh 12:54 AM | October 16,2009
Stakeholders such as the ministries of agriculture, health and environment will have to sign off on it first
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Jacob P. Koshy 10:49 PM | October 14,2009
China’s prowess in basic sciences gives it an edge in areas such as nanotechnology, drug discovery, energy research
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Jacob P. Koshy 10:43 PM | October 12,2009
Budgetary support for energy and water-related research dipped from 26.7% of the research outlay in the seventh Plan to 13.21% in the ninth Plan
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Jacob P. Koshy 12:44 AM | October 08,2009
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath shared the 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) prize for showing how the ribosome, which produces protein, functions at the atomic level
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Jacob P. Koshy 10:43 PM | October 07,2009
Companies and govt bodies plan to commission pilot projects in 25 regions that face water problems
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Jacob P. Koshy 09:30 PM | October 01,2009
If chimpanzees were really that close to humans, then the common human-chimp ancestor ought to be more chimpanzee than human, given that chimpanzees were the older stage in evolution
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Jacob P. Koshy 01:15 AM | September 29,2009
Commissioning the advanced-technology radar would have meant allowing Chinese personnel on the premises owned and operated by the Indian Navy
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