Hyderabad has always fascinated historians, researchers, chroniclers, travellers and photographers. The history of the City of Pearls is intertwined with fables of love, anecdotes of generosity, stories of the nobility, chronicles of beautiful monuments and records of its unique tehzeeb or etiquette.

The Central government might have scored a political point by proposing chemical castration for rape convicts, but medical experts say it is easier said than done.

Bone fractures will now heal faster thanks to drug molecules developed by a team of Indian scientists from a tree that thrives in the Himalayas. The drug molecules stimulates bone formation, filling u

In February 22, 1937, Time magazine featured Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last of Hyderabad’s Nizams, on its cover, hailing him as the richest man in the world.

The Nizam continues to figure on the list o

Prime Minister Manmohan Sigh on Tuesday pledged $50 million — around `270 crores — towards protecting biodiversity.

With decreasing discharges into the sea, India’s rivers are dying. Reduced outflows have led to untold damage to the fragile ecology and biodiversity of the Indian river systems.

Environment experts

With decreasing discharges into the sea, India’s rivers are dying. Reduced outflows have led to untold damage to the fragile ecology and biodiversity of the Indian river systems.

Biodiversity experts have strongly opposed the idea of a supranational world patent regime arguing that it would kill the local scientific talent and make government-funded res-earch more expensive.

The world’s largest gathering ever on biodiversity began here on Monday with experts and policy makers from 170 countries trying to work out the Hyderabad Roadmap to achieve the biological diversity a

Vedic ecology is generating a lot of excitement at the ongoing Conference of Parties (CoP-11) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. A group of activists is popularising the concept