Vistara will stop giving plastic water bottles on board its flights, in a bid to reduce plastic usage. The airline, which had earlier banned chewing of gutka on its flights, on Wednesday said it “plans
No global climate change pact could be fruitful without including India and China, US president George Bush said on Sunday as leaders from G8 nations prepared to thrash out a long-term deal to face global warming. "I'll be constructive,' Bush said after talks with Japanese premier Yasuo Fukuda, but "we're not going to solve the problem' unless those two fast-growing economies take part in any long-term deal,' Japanese media reported.
From Jodhpur, Savita Rathi was married into a family in Gopalpura village in Churu district, Rajasthan. She became sarpanch of Gopalpura gram panchayat by winning the 2005 elections, defeating her male rival by 600 votes in the general category. She spoke to Narayani Ganesh on the sidelines of a meeting on Panchayati Raj institutions organised by the Indian Women's Press Corps in the capital recently: You are a qualified lawyer. Is that an advantage?
Double-digit inflation in India is unusual since it has managed for many years with containing inflation to low single-digit figures. Indian voters are also inflation averse and for years the bureaucracy in charge of the economy has been sensitive to any upsurge in inflation. In those days their salaries were in nominal terms and not adjusted for dearness allowance. So inflation hurt the bosses as much as the masses.
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The statistics are grim. The Kashmir hangul, the only surviving subspecies of the red deer family, is slowly becoming extinct. In fact, as per the latest census report released in March, its population has come down from 228 to 160 in the last four years. This, when in the late 1940s, some 5,000 hangul, also known as Kashmir stag, roamed the Himalayan region.
The Manmohan-Bush summit in the sidelines of the G8 summit in Hokkaido is expected to work out a tentative plan of action for the next two stages, of the nuclear deal
Sariska's gain may be the army's loss. A field firing range near the tiger reserve is likely to be closed down following the relocation of big cats from Ranthambore National Park. Rajasthan's forest department has refused to give a
Rajasthan, Kerala and Haryana top the list among states that have registered growth in manufacturing jobs according to comparison of the data from the economic censuses of 1998 and 2005. The other southern states too have recorded rather high growth in employment in the manufacturing sector.
Even as the Indian government seemed set to move ahead with the stalled nuclear deal with the US, a top American daily has underlined there was no reason for Bush administration to rush as it had given away too much and got far too little.
State forest officials have seized the halfburnt skin, bones and other remains of a chinkara from the farmhouse of state minister for transport and tribal development Dharmarao Baba Atram. The raid on Atram's farmhouse at Khingar in Mahabaleshwar taluka comes nearly three weeks after the poaching of the chinkara, an endangered species of deer, in the forest area of Purandar taluka came to light.
