Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka told Parliament yesterday that the government would launch its programme for recycling the electronic wastes such as mobile phone batteries very soon.

The Minister was speaking during the debate on the Environment Conservation Levy which was introduced earlier.

Patent bill may be pushed through Parliament without debate THE Ministry of Science and Technology has introduced a bill in the Parliament that may make life-saving drugs unaffordable for poor people. The bill gives scientists and researchers in government-funded universities the right to patent innovations and research outcomes. This includes medical research and patenting drug

PROJECTS in states with coal mines may be given preferential treatment in allocation of coal blocks as the government looks to push growth in coal-rich states that remain economically backward.

Devesh Kumar NEW DELHI

New Delhi: The UPA Government on Wednesday pushed through two landmark legislations

IN an attempt to prevent skirmishes of the kind that left the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government badly bruised in the wake of Nandigram and Singur clashes, the Manmohan Singh government is racing against time to get the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2007, and the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2007, passed in the remaining two days of Parliament.

But unsure of its passage this session
Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 23

The government today approved introduction of

NEW DELHI, Feb 20

ASI May Give The Job To Roorkee Institute
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