Shakti Pumps (India) announced that the Government of India has announced a mega scheme namely Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Uttham Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) with an objective to scale up use of
India has called a high level meeting of South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (Saarc) nation representatives to evolve a common stand on the issue of cross border movement of hazardous
Suicides by farmers due to cotton crop failure in Andhra Pradesh continued unabated even as the state government announced a relief package for farmers and promised to evolve a long term measures to
The Karnataka High Court stayed the setting up of a new internatonal airport project, which was to come up near Mangalore. The ruling was passed on a writ petition filed by an environmental support
A medical study indicates that ethnic Indians are far more susceptible to heart disease than other ethnic groups. The British study by Dr. Colin Bary, a consultant cardiologist from Manchestor, found
The US government Wednesday brought the first criminal charges in its tobacco industry investigation, alleging a California biotechnology firm conspired with a cigarette maker to secretly develop a
A statutory body, on the lines of the Tobacco Board, is being mooted by the Andhra Pradesh government to regulate regions under cotton cultivation. The proposed body will confine cotton crop to
India has banned the import of poultry and its products as well as other birds from all the countries where avian influenza disease is prevalent. The agriculture ministry has communicated this
WHO experts will delay their hunt for the killer bird flu in China by a few days and may include a stop in Hong Kong, an official with the UN body said
The Union Cabinet has approved the agriculture ministry's proposal for treating large scale crop damage due to pest infestation as a natural clalamity for the purpose of providing relief and
The Maharashtra government's Mumbai-Pune expressway project formally got underway. The express project aimed at decongesting the existing highway was delayed on account of stiff opposition by
