US: Sunderesh Heragu wins tech innovation award

The Institute of Industrial Engineers presented the Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering to Professor Sunderesh S Heragu, the Mary Lee and George F Duthie Chair in Engineering......

Pachauri is Nature's 'Newsmaker of 2007'

British weekly journal Nature on Thursday named environmentalist and the head of Nobel-winning Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, R K Pachauri, as its 'Newsmaker of the Year'. The IPCC was......

Al Gore, Pachauri's IPCC share peace Nobel

Former United States vice-president Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel committee has said. Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri......

'Water shortage is a very, very serious situation'

It has been argued that the next world war will be fought not over oil, but over water. In India, water riots have broken out in Madhya Pradesh this year and people have lost lives fighting......

Peru Summit: Over 190 nations negotiate historic climate deal

The 12-day meeting has to agree on a draft agreement which would form the cornerstone of a historic deal to be signed in Paris in December 2015 and take effect by 2020. Image: Street performers......

India's rivers, agriculture under threat: Al Gore

Former American Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore has warned that the black carbon emissions in the subcontinent -- from kerosene lamps and cooking stoves -- and use of biomass fuels can......

Bachchans kick off IIFA Awards

The International Indian Film Academy Awards, IIFA, began on a high note in Bangkok as the Bachchan Parivar arrived in the Thai capital to attend the annual event. Also See: Thailand beckons......