After bagging the 4,000 mw ultra mega power project (UMPP) at Sasan in Madhya Pradesh, the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) company Reliance Power has launched the development of another coal-based project with a generation capacity of 3,910 mw in Madhya Pradesh with an investment of Rs 18,000 crore. The company has already signed the state support agreement with the Madhya Pradesh government.
Minister for Water Resource Bharat Chandra Narah has totally failed to solve the erosion and flood problems of Lakhimpur district as well as in the State because of his imprudent and reluctant attitude towards the long standing problems said Bandhuram Pawegam, president of Mishing Bane Khebang.
A sudden and violent storm has caused havoc to 16 villages in Rowta area here recently. Sources said that 4800 families borne the brunt of the calamity. Many families had to take shelter at Barabazar High School, sources added. The storm had uprooted several trees, damaged electric posts and blown away house-roofs. Two persons were reportedly injured during the storm.
Sources said that the river island of Majuli which lies on the other side faces a threat of being submerged by river waters of the Brahmaputra in case the embankment is breached. "Majuli, which has considerably decreased in size due to large scale erosion faces threat of extinction if flooding and erosion continue unabated,' the source added. "The Centre and State may be pumping crores into various anti-erosion projects in Majuli every year but all these are being literally washed away by the mighty Brahmaputra,' the source said.
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Mumbai, today linked bird flu in Tripura to unhygienic condition of chicken and egg farms. This comes at a time when the State Government has blamed Bangladesh for the spread of the H5N1 virus through unchecked poultry movement from across the border. PETA officials here said besides Tripura, they had issued general warning to every State in India early this year about filthy condition in poultry farms after conducting a random survey and cautioned that it could lead to spread of the flu virus.
Many veterinarian doctors and medical experts in Sikkim are engaged in an endeavour for captive-breeding and prevent various animal species from facing extinction. Recently, Sikkim Anti-Rabies and Animal Health programme (SARAH) in cooperation with the Sikkim Government's department of Animal Husbandry, saved the life of a common Leopard through caesarian operation. It was for the first time that a C- section had been performed on an animal here.
The Vice Chancellor (VC), Gomal University (GU), Professor Dr Muhammad Farid Khan on Thursday said that some mega educational projects were being launched to bring the university at par with five developed universities of Pakistan. He was addressing the inaugural session of the one-day workshop on water/energy conservation in agriculture sector, arranged by the GU's Faculty of Agriculture. He also said that new building of the Faculty of Agriculture was being constructed and that faculty would be transformed into the University of Agriculture to import sufficient knowledge in this field.
The project costing Rs 1.4 billion for the development of the forestry sector in Fata has been prepared whereas mega forestry sector projects have also been initiated at a cost of Rs 12 billion in all four provinces, including AJK. The environment ministry is also executing Rs 400 million projects on environmental information management with the financial assistant of Japan.
BJP youth leader Ameet Satam aims to create awareness among masses, policy makers Ameet Satam(31), a youth leader and activist of the Mumbai unit of the BJP, is making a five-minute documentary to educate the masses about the effects of global warming. Satam conceptualized and produced the project after he came up with the idea in September last year.The documentary aims at creating mass awareness about the issue of global warming.
Two weeks after the death of three children in Mumbai following the administration different immunisation dosages, the committee formed by the state government and BMC health authorities has come out with a preliminary report on the cause of the deaths. According to the doctors in the committee, the deaths were not caused by defective vaccines. "It is not the fault of the vaccines, but again it is difficult to say unless we get the reports of the vaccine samples tests from the Kasauli laboratory,' said Dr Radha Aras, professor and head of preventive and social medicine department.
State's second polio case this year detected in powerloom town that has a huge migrant population, child had not been immunised in UP Fourteen-month-old Raj Gupta sleeps soundly on the hospital bed at the Indira Gandhi Memorial hospital, Bhiwandi, even as his mother eyes well up at mention of polio.
New results show that the response of marine organisms to ocean acidification varies both within and between species.
If cleared, it will study impact of climate conditions on crops, minerals Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's hometown Baramati in Pune district would in all probability house the ambitious National Institute for Abiotic Stress proposed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). This would be the first research institute of its kind to study the impact of climate conditions on crops and minerals in the country.
Creeping out of their condo after dark carrying illicit bags of garbage was not part of the life Sarah Moser and her husband envisioned for themselves before moving to tropical Singapore. But with recycling in its infancy on the island, such nocturnal escapades have become normal for the two academics. Each week they dodge watchful security guards, barking dogs and suspicious neighbours to carry rubbish they cannot recycle at home to recycling bins far down the road.
More than 5,000 health workers have fanned out to disinfect China's earthquake-hit villages, and doctors and nurses are stationed round the clock in refugee camps to try to prevent survivors from falling sick. At the Jiujiang Sports Stadium in Mianyang, housing more than 20,000 survivors, an old man watches his wife grimace after downing a small vial of traditional Chinese medicine. "This is very good, it will stop you from getting sick now that your immune system is weak," muttered a nurse as she waved the couple away.
Carbon dioxide spewed by human activities has made ocean water so acidic that it is eating away at the shells and skeletons of starfish, coral, clams and other sea creatures, scientists said on Thursday. Marine researchers knew that ocean acidification, as it's called, was occurring in deep water far from land. What they called "truly astonishing" was the appearance of this damaging phenomenon on the Pacific North American continental shelf, stretching from Mexico to Canada.
Germany and France are close to an accord on reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cars that could pave the way for the introduction of European Union-wide limits, a government source said on Thursday. Germany is concerned that planned EU rules which would cap emissions at 120 grammes per km on average from 2012, and introduce fines for non-compliance, will put its luxury automobile industry at a disadvantage.
Overfishing partly caused by booming demand for shark fin soup, a delicacy in some Asian countries, is threatening the existence of 11 kinds of ocean sharks, an international study showed on Thursday. The fish, often seen as ferocious sea predators, suffer from largely unregulated fishing for their valuable fins, said the report into 21 species of sharks and rays living in the open oceans. The experts who wrote the study, organised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, also urged governments to quickly impose catch limits.
Chinese engineers are starting to make headway against lakes that have formed behind landslides, threatening yet more devastation on the earthquake-stricken valleys downstream. Last week's big tremor changed the landscape of northern Sichuan province, as mountainsides were obliterated along the Longmenshan fault. In Hongguang, in northeastern Sichuan, the earthquake caused both sides of a valley to slide, burying three villages and 900 people. The Qingzhu River is trapped behind. "The mountains merged," said Gao Xiao, who barely escaped a landslide that roared past her house.
Finding ways of safely burying carbon dioxide could be the only way of keeping greenhouse gas emissions below dangerous levels, the International Energy Agency's chief economist said on Thursday. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is seen by industry and some lawmakers as a possible silver bullet in the fight against climate change as it could curb growing emissions from coal plants.
