New online water quality monitoring system in Hyderabad

Reward for reporting illegal taps

The Hyderabad authorities will issue a toll-free number for informers

'We are in a much better position than in the past'

With the Zika virus spreading across the Americas, the international community has panicked. Kundan Pandey spoke to Soumya Swaminathan, Director …

Altered genes can improve fish

Scientists are trying to enhance the quality of fish by using a controversial technique and are confident the process will be perfected soon.

South Asia

Indians, Europeans share same parentage, say tummy bacteria

Visibly efficient

Common sense delivers

Murli Mohan Sharma opted out.

Neural networks on portable devices could be a reality soon

Artificial neural networks function the same way as the human nervous system, and are based on interconnected processing elements working …

Dark zones are human-made

Groundwater sustains almost 60 per cent of the irrigated land in India. Most districts in India today have larger shares of irrigated land under …

Now, Hyderabad joins list of places suffering from severe water crisis

There is a gap of 47 per cent between demand and supply of water in the city

Reaping a double benefit

Two rice crops annually in semi-arid tropic regions good for soil fertility, claims study

Compound in toad skin could cure liver cancer

Third phase of Genome Valley in Hyderabad

Hyderabad Floods: The ghosts of dead lakes haunt the city

Absence of infrastructure to drain out a meagre half a metre of rainfall led to mayhem  

Killer heat wave engulfs Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

Local media reports say that, in all, more than 300 people have died due to the weather in both states

Lakes do the disappearing act

Several lakes in Hyderabad have shrunk or vanished due to encroachment and pollution

Study unearths potential diagnostic markers for male infertility

Eight genes causing infertility identified

Megacities get a Central boost

Trash tax

Telangana’s heavy showers have sure shot imprint of climate change

Global warming made the cyclonic system that brought rains to the state carry more water than usual

Making polluters pay

Proposal to tax polluting vehicles in Andhra Pradesh even as petroleum ministry refuses it natural gas

Seed congress surreptitiously endorses transgenic varieties

did the World Seed Congress-2003 -- held under a cloak of secrecy in Bangalore from June 7 to 11 -- have a hidden agenda? It transpires that the …

Very little amendment

Book>> New Forms of Urban Governance in India Shifts, Models, Networks and Contestations edited by ISA Baud and J De Wit Sage Publications, …

Importance of lakes not realised enough: Flood control chief

Sharad Chandra, director, flood forecast monitoring division, Central Water Commission, spoke to DTE on increasing instances of urban flooding&…