A Rs. 16,978-crore rehabilitation package for farmers proposed by the Union Agriculture Ministry for the predominant suicide-prone 31 districts in four States is expected to come up for approval in
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav's native village Saifai in Etawah district would soon have the distinction of having the State's first lion safari, which will house endangered
"We will commit hatya (murder), not atmahatya (suicide) like Vidharbha farmers," says Jaywant Madhvi of Vashi village in Pen taluk in Raigad district, Maharashtra. Other farmers nod in assent. For
Amid growing opposition to the setting up of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), the Board of Approvals cleared 31 more proposals, including the Rs. 53,000-crore investment in Orissa by South Korean steel
Typhoon Xangsane ploughed into the Philippines on Thursday, killing at least 11 persons and leaving dozens missing as it ripped down power lines and cut off electricity for tens of millions of
A 50,000-tonne Russian wheat consignment has been rejected by the State Trading Corporation (STC) as a higher percentage of "extraneous matter" was found in the cargo, according to a Chennai Port
Pepsico India Holdings Pvt Ltd, makers of the Pepsi-range of soft-drinks and snacks products, would soon start cultivating seaweed along the coastal areas of Gujarat and set up a plant next year to
The Centre has made the Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary in Orissa a tiger reserve. According to the 2004 census, the reserve is home to 18 Royal Bengal Tigers and 34 leopards. Satkosia now becomes the
The Goa government has launched its own Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which guarantees 100 days of work per annum at Rs 100 a day to the rural poor. Modelled somewhat on the Central scheme, the
The Centre has redrafted the North East Industrial Policy (2006) to provide for a graded system of incentives to "promote more timely development" and accelerate industrialisation in the eight
THE MCD has issued circulars to government offices, educational institutions and Resident Welfare Associations asking them to stop using coolers in an attempt to check the spread of dengue fever. "As
As the government strives to meet its target of setting up 1,00,000 broadband kiosks along with private sector partners, software giant Microsoft Corp and technology major Hughes said on Thursday
Last year, tired of debt and crop failure, a farmer in Vidarbha's suicide-prone Yavatmal district committed suicide on a pyre of cotton stalks in his farm. If he had known a Gandhian institute called
Some 2.6 billion people in the world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhoea and other diseases fatal to children, said a UN report released.
The Maharashtra government has admitted that nineyear-old Nazli Shaikh, the first child to fall prey to polio in Mumbai in nearly three years, contracted the disease in the city itself and not from
By its own admission, Russia's electricity monopoly is the world's largest corporate producer of greenhouse gases, accounting
India's top tyre cord maker, SRF is in talks with EDF Trading of France , Barclays Csapital and a London based private fund to sell carbon credits a senior company official said . "EDF Trading ,
Union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz has sought the support of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) for getting the Dal Lake in Kashmir declared a world heritage site of the
Rain gardens have been recommended as a best management practice to treat stormwater runoff. Replicate rain gardens were constructed in Haddam, CT, to treat roof runoff. The objective of this study was to assess whether the creation of a saturated zone in a rain garden improved retention of pollutants. The gardens were sized to store 2.54 cm (1 in) of runoff.
The Chhattisgarh government has decided to conduct roadshows all over the country to register its pres- ence on the national tourist map. During the inauguration of the State Information Centre in
