City firm bags prestigious water award
Chennai-based Aqua Designs has won the "Best Upcoming Water Company 2006-2007" award for outstanding contribution in the field of water in India at the 2006-07 Water Digest Water Awards in New Delhi
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Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference to focus on pro-poor urban governance
All is set for the Housing Ministers, High Commissioners and Ambassadors from 69 Asia-Pacific countries, including India, coming here to participate in the first Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference
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Doordarshan Srinagar focusing on developmental programmes
Doordarshan Kendra Srinagar has made a new mark by doing most of its programming with in house productions, departing from the traditional path of commissioning royalty- based programmes and complete
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Karunanidhi for interlinking rivers
Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi stressed the need for nationalisation and interlinking of rivers, particularly the southern peninsular component, and ensuring its inclusion and funding in the 11th Plan
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Project for promotion of salt iodisation launched
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Micronutrient Initiative (MI) have launched a pilot project for promotion of salt iodisation among small and medium salt producers in Rajasthan. The
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30 hurt as police, tribals clash
At least 25 police personnel and five tribal persons were injured in a clash between people and the police at Wangtoo in Kinnaur district this evening. It may be mentioned that the tribal people had
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Farmers riot in Maharashtra
The local administration at Wani town in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district today clamped curfew after cotton growers gheraoed minister Manohar Naik, sent to pacify the farmers. The situation in the
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Healthy Haryana campaign launched
An ambitious public-private partnership health campaign was launched from the most backward district of Mewat in Haryana on December 9. The campaign
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MCD Budget: Rs 76 cr allocated for greenery
The Municipal Commissioner, Mr A. K. Nigam, in an estimated budget proposal of the MCD for the year 2007-2008, has allocated Rs 76 crore for developing greenery and maintenance of parks in the
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Order to hospitals on waste management
The government has ordered nursing homes and hospitals in the state to comply with the directions of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on solid waste management, failing which their registration would
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Pakistan test-fires Ghaznavi missile
Pakistan today successfully conducted the test-fire of the short-range ballistic missile, HATF-III (Ghaznavi), which has a range of almost 300 km. ''The launch was carried out by the strategic
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Policy on hydro power projects sought
Himachal has requested the Centre to formulate a national policy for tapping 80,000 MW hydro electric potential available in the country for faster economic growth of hilly regions and ensuring
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ADB to led $1 bn for poor in India
The Asian Development Bank is to announce on Monday a record $1bn loan to help alleviate rural poverty in India amid concern over slowing growth in the agricultural sectorn and a wave of suicides by
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Sex ratio keeps getting worse
It's long been a matter of shame for
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Vision of Andhra offered by YSR
The Andhra Pradesh government dreams of giving drinking water, housing, electricity, telephone and credit service to every household in the state during the 11th Plan, chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhar
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Rajasthan court bans tourist cars in tiger reserve
The Rajasthan high court has banned all tourists vehicles from entering Ranthambore National Park, except for vehicles for maintenance. The court passed an interim order on Friday while hearing a
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Curfew in Wani after farmer
Deputy chief minister R.R. Patil, who also holds the Maharashtra home portfolio, is unhappy with the way the Maharashtra State Cotton Growers' Cooperative Marketing Federation handled the situation
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Protein shows promise against HIV, cancer & malaria
In a significant development scientists have isolated a compound from s bacterium converted it into a candidate drug, and claim it can act against three killer diseases- HIV, cancer and
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Green credentials quashed by Methane
During the 1980 about 2,500 square kilometres of Amazonian rainforest were flooded to create the Balbina dam to feed the energy demands of the Brazilian city of Manaus. A sizeable chunk of
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Southern Railway lets out untreated sewage into the open
Several hundred school students are forced to wade through ankle-deep sewage to reach their schools in East Tambaram and Chitlapakkam, Tamil nadu. Southern Railway, responsible for the problem, seems