The DVC has been incurring losses due to the 1,200-MW Raghunathpur power plant, the estimated financial bleeding at Rs 70 crore per month. The Damodar Valley Corporation Ltd might “drop” plans to transfer
Chennai: A bitter battle between age-old rivals is brewing on social media. The contestants: Sceptical allopaths and combative Siddha practitioners. The referee: A defensive state government. As the fight
KOLKATA: From Tollygunge to Kidderpore and Gariahat to Amherst Street, every time you buy vegetables, fish, chicken or grocery from roadside markets, you are taking home dollops of heavy metal poison in
The latest Global Burden of Disease study lists ailments that are triggering most deaths and disabilities in India. DNA examines what all has changed over the past decades, and underlines that the government
HARIDWAR: A 30-year-old woman died on Saturday due to complications arising from dengue fever, her relatives said. However, the district administration refused to confirm if the death was due to dengue.
Coimbatore: The number of dengue patients undergoing treatment at the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital touched 42 on Sunday while the number of patients admitted with fever reached 187. None of
City hospitals are getting 5-10 cases on a daily basis; health officials on their toes Dengue is slowly taking the district in its grip with 650 cases testing positive for the epidemic till now and
Wind picks up over the last 24 hours, helping disperse pollutants that had formed a smog layer but air still unhealthy, say experts While the air quality in the Capital improved a bit on Sunday from
Authorities’ reluctance to abide by MoEF directive renders brick kilns illegal More than six months have passed since Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) made it mandatory for all brick
Ministry unveils draft regulation for private participation in exploration The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has unveiled draft guidelines on private participation in studies for exploring
Water bodies have decreased by a steep 40% in the national capital region (NCR) as a result of rapid urbanisation between 1972 and 2014, when the region saw a 17-fold rise in urban built-up areas, a study
This scheme empowers mining districts to levy a charge on all mining operations to create a fund that would be used to mitigate harmful effects of mining and to benefit local people At present, if a
Let's take stock of what we have done and what needs to be done for the right to clean air It’s that time of the year again. The winter is closing in. The cold will bring inversion and trap the pollutants
The World Health Organization has said it is working to contain an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) that has appeared in eastern Uganda on the border with Kenya. At least one person is confirmed
Researchers from the Seychelles Islands Foundation, which manages the remote Aldabra atoll, have introduced new methods to monitor the population of giant land tortoises there. The Aldabra scientific
Addis Ababa — Index insurance is being promoted as a solution to protect climate affected smallholder farmers in Africa. This type of micro insurance is slowly gaining ground as a way of compensating farmers
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN-OCHA, said about 3.4 million people need nutrition assistance due to food crisis caused by Boko Haram insurgency in the North-east.
Known for holding Africa’s third largest hydropower potential (after the DRC and Ethiopia), Cameroon bares itself as a potential solar attraction as well. Cameroon is currently harnessing only 721MW
It has been reported here that floods, landslides, drought and conflicts are some of the major factors that trigger disasters that cause people to flee from their homes in the countries that form the East
“I am proud as the Governor of Iowa State to proclaim Dr. Akinwumi Adesina as the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate.” With these words, Governor Kim Reynolds, officially named President of the African
