New strategies needed for elimination of malaria: Experts
Conventionally less lethal malarial parasites are also taking up deadlier forms, they said
JNU to establish new centre for research in natural products
The main objective of the centre is to screen natural products to identify potential candidates for further optimisation and preclinical and …
Scientists develop transgenic rice that can grow under high salinity, drought
A team of Indian and international scientists hit upon the idea while studying a wild rice variety, Pokkali, grown in coastal regions of Kerala
Is the JNU row a product of cacophony and misplaced nationalism?
Down To Earth Graphic Editor Sorit Gupto's take on the goings on of the past week—dissent, debate and polarisation over the concept of …
India to bid adieu to Five Year Plans
The country will still have Plan documents but they would not adhere to a five year time period
No apartments
Notes on 100 smart cities
The new government is on a techno-heavy mission to create modern cities. Does it have the vision it takes?
DRDO, JNU scientists develop more potent Anthrax vaccine
Claim new vaccine superior than existing ones as it can generate immune response to anthraxtoxin as well as spores
Rs 1.56 lakh crore of solar development approved in Rajasthan
State government gave approval for investment proposals belonging to four major power firms
Urban development agenda 2015
So far, smart cities have been all talks and no action. Will 2015 be any different? A quick account of what Narendra Modi needs to fix to make …
It's nice but not sunny
It will take more than ambitious targets for the government to increase India's solar capacity
‘Low solar energy tariff bids are sustainable’
The second batch of bidding for photovoltaic projects totalling 350 MW capacity in December under the national solar mission witnessed …
India's renewable energy plans likely to be derailed
Thanks to underutilisation of funds and poor capacity generation
Solar dispute: US blocks request for WTO panel but India confident of policy compliance
Canada, EU support India’s bid for setting up of the panel and settling the dispute
Happy feet
Residents of pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods keep fit
Solar mission’s new priority: off-grid and grid-connected rooftop solar power
3,000 MW of solar energy to be added in second phase of national solar mission
End of the road for Bangalore?
How negotiable is your city?
Centre asks cities to benchmark their urban transportation services
Solar mission phase II: viability gap funding not the best way to subsidise solar photovoltaic plants, say analysts
It may lead to setting up of inefficient solar projects under National Solar Mission
JNNURM: a Nehruvian farce
Rebuilding cities
JNNURM fares well
Water for profit
Centre considering fund to protect domestic solar industry
Solar mission mandate to promote domestic crystalline silicon technology fails to achieve desired result
Look back at the decade: Solar energy
In the second decade of the millenium, everyone wanted a piece of the pie in the sky