Govt expects 30,000 job opportunities
The administration is busy finalizing the nitty-fritty of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to be launched next financial year. The Central Government has selected13 districts in the
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Water goes the cola way
After the pesticide furore in the colas, the latest to come under the shadow of pollution is groundwater in Madhya Pradesh. Pollutants from industries and municipal waste are wreaking havoc with
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Green plans for Taj stretch: SC to hear case today
The Supreme Court, Archaeological Survey of India and various other Central and state agencies are still trying to work out an effective way to deal with what remains of the Taj Heritage Corridor.
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Rural Amreli redefines corporate farming
It was a simple boardroom resolution: The board resolves to set up a company owned by farmers that will generate income, earn profits and distribute dividends. But this boardroom meeting last month,
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Software to track ultrasounds in city
In a move to curb illegal abortions, the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) is planning to get a software developed for monitoring ultrasound scanning in clinics across the city. Clinics are
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Agra's monkey menace has villagers up in arms
Like most of the cities of UP, old timers in Agra begin their day by feeding the hordes of monkeys that gather at the numerous temples of the city, waiting for the devotees to arrive. This tradition
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Fungus will cure cancer
Researchers have now finally been able to manufacture a sizable amount of a fungus that produces cancer-cell killing compounds. For the first time, they have developed a way to synthesise a
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ICAR develops wheat for diabetics
The staple diet wheat could come with a 'low-calorie' label. Agricultural scientists have developed a new wheat variety that controls the sugar as well as cholesterol level in blood. Indian Council
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Pomegranate juice helps sweet tooth
According to results published in the August 2006 issue of Atherosclerosis, subjects who drank 180 ml (6 oz.) of pomegranate juice per day for three months experienced a reduced risk for
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Villagers up in arms against illegal mining
Even as the illegal mining continues in Aravalli hills despite the Supreme Court ban in five kms region bordering the national capital, the residents of the nearby villages have taken up the arms
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Join forest conservation drive: Speaker
Speaker HP Vidhan Sabha, G.R. Musafir, in a function organised by Forest Department at Ghadasar in Rajgarh subdivision of Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh disbursed cheques worth 34 lakhs to
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CAG slams Project Tiger
As the government prepares to set up a national tiger conservation authority and a wildlife crime bureau in the country by approving the Wildlife (protection) Amendment Bill this Friday, its most
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Budda Nullah gets more septic
From the banks of Budda Nullah at Badi Haibowal,Punjab you witness something utterly grotesque. Low on water and shockingly high on untreated domestic and industrial sewage, the once-hardy Nullah has
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Delhi to host World Rice Congress in Oct
The stakeholders of the international rice community
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National forestry action programme prepared
A National Forestry Action Programme, providing a comprehensive strategic plan for sustainable forestry development for the next 20 years, has been prepared by the ministry of environment and
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TVS Motor working on gas-powered motorcycles
After carmakers, it is now bikemakers' turn to line up CNG and LPG variants of their existing models. The country's third largest two-wheeler company TVS Motor Company Ltd (TVS) is working on
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US opposes India's initiative on labelling of GM foods
The US has raised concerns over India's plans to formulate labelling norms for genetically modified (GM) foods at the WTO committee on technical barriers to trade. US has urged India to rather
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1 lakh Chinese face chemical spill threat
A chemical spill in a northwestern Chinese river polluted a reservoir serving at least 100,000 residents, but water quality was returned to normal by Sunday, local officials said. A tanker loaded
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Russian scientists warns of global cooling
A top Russian scientists has warned that the earth will experience
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Lakh trees in desert'
Around 100,000 saplings are being planted in the Asansol-Durgapur industrial belt, where only a little over 3 per cent is now under green cover. On an average, 17 per cent of India is under forest