In an embarrassment for the government, two cabinet ministers, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and Vayalar Ravi, endorsed and released an international NGO-sponsored report in Delhi demanding that India impose a carbon tax on the goods it produces and take on hard time-bound greenhouse gas emission reduction targets
Information: Lead District Officer of RBI M. Vijaykumar (second left), handing over a book on financial inclusion to Manager, Pallavan Grama Bank, Hosur branch, I. Asokan in Krishnagiri on Wednesday. AGM, NABARD, V. Thirumalai (second right) and Lead Bank Manager B. Vadivelu (right) are in the picture.
HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, OCT 22 The Goa State Pollution Control Board has slammed one more notice on the Corporation of the City of Panaji to immediately stop the treatment, disposal and storage of municipal solid waste at EDC Patto Plaza. The directions come after an inspection conducted yesterday by the Board following complaints of foul stench.
DH News Service, Chikmagalur: Organic farming process must be promoted for the farmers to become self dependent, said MLC C T Ravi. Laying the foundation stone for the veterinary hospital at Sindigere village, Mr Ravi said that India is incomplete without farmers and farmers are incomplete without cattle.
DH News Service, Mudigere: Illegal sand mining has continued unabated on the banks of river Hemavathi, particularly in Hanthur, Angadi, Kanachur and Jenubail villages. Sand mining is being done in an area stretching more than 25 acres altogether. However, the license has been given for sand mining only for 9 acres in 4 villages.
BEIJING: Chinese greenhouse gas pollution could more than double within two decades, a Chinese state research institute said in a study that casts stark light on the industrial giant's role in stoking global warming.
Viajaywada, Oct. 22: The issue of garbage dumping has become a big problem to the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) as the villagers of Patapadu are up in arms against throwing the city
Visakhapatnam, Oct.
Hong Kong, Three more children in the southern Chinese gambling enclave of Macau have developed kidney stones after drinking milk that may have been be tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, bringing the total number of sick children to seven, the government said.
Compound used in manufacture of flat panel televisions, computer displays, microcircuits, solar panels is 17,000 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide A powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated, according to a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
Fishermen's aims of increasing their catch seem at odds with preserving fish stocks by limiting catch. A study of more than 11,000 fisheries shows that 'individual tradable quotas' can reconcile these goals.
Europe needs to find a responsible way out of its climate-regulation impasse. (Editorial)
<p>Climate change in Africa is expected to lead to a higher occurrence of severe droughts in semi-arid and arid ecosystems. Understanding how animal populations react to such events is thus crucial for
NEW DELHI: Mahindra & Mahindra on Tuesday launched the variants of its sports utility vehicles (SUVs) Scorpio and Bolero, containing
THE government has taken up a scheme of cultivating a short duration variety of Aman paddy on 40,000 hectares of land in the five monga-stricken districts of the northern region to generate employment opportunities. This scheme is expected to generate income for the day-labourers and other poor people during the lean period of October and November.
Gargi Parsai
Diets heavy in fried foods, salty snacks and meat account for about 35 per cent of heart attacks globally, researchers reported on Monday. Their study of 52 countries showed that people who ate a
As Delhiites prepare to celebrate Diwali, they need to ensure that the fresh coat of paint they use on their walls is lead-free. A study on lead in household paints titled
Samples of powdered milk of eight brands that had tested positive for melamine contamination were handed over to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) yesterday for further testing.
