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The Comptroller and Auditor General has pulled up DoT's vigilance arm of for failing to impose penalty to the tune of Rs 4,300 crore on telecom operators for violating mobile tower radiation rules.
Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 18:55
Elevated levels of radioactivity have been detected at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Britain and staffing there has been reduced, its operators said on Friday.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 00:12
Stephen Hawking`s (famous theoretical physicist) new theory has startled the scientific world and has challenged the notion about black holes upturning the whole mystery surrounding them.
Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 13:19
Here comes a novel approach to harvest solar energy that could improve efficiency by storing the energy for later use.
Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 12:27
Astronomers have found a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments believed to connect galaxies in a cosmic web.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 21:20
Radioactive debris caused by nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War still exist in the Earth`s atmosphere, a new study has warned.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 15:10
Scientists have warned that the proposal to ward off global warming by cooling earth artificially could lead to climate disorder like drought in poorest countries, particularly in Africa, South America and Asia.
Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 11:36
Researchers have suggested that the risk of eruption of a "supervolcano", hundreds times more powerful than conventional volcanoes -have potential to wipe out civilization - is more likely than believed earlier.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 13:33
Researchers have claimed to have resolved decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as ultra-relativistic electrons in the Earth`s near-space environment.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 10:53
Earth`s upper atmosphere is still so saturated with ozone-eating chlorine that it will take about another decade for evidence that a nearly 25-year-old ban on such destructive chemicals is working, scientists said.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 19:36
Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have devised a new technique to boil water in less than a trillionth of a second.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 14:08
Comet ISON, once called the comet of the century, couldn`t survive the close brush with the sun, it has been revealed.
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