Power Ministers from the northeastern states on Wednesday called for development of power projects for the overall socio-economic development of the region. At the North Eastern Region Power Committee
State Power Minister Comingone Ymbon has informed that Meghalaya Government has envisaged development of solar power park in the State and already taken up development of two solar parks of capacity 10
This World's Obesity day, do not forget to put on your running shoes every day or engage in other physical activities, and introduce some elements of fun in your life without indulging in processed and
Chennai: At a time when public health officials in the state are struggling to contain the dengue outbreak, the Centre has limited its role to remote monitoring the crisis. The Centre had sent two teams
The 237th meeting of the State Environment Assessment Committee (SEAC) will be held here on October 12 and 13. The Committee among other agendas would review environment clearance proposals for major
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today directed the Punjab Government to produce before it 21 farmers which it claimed to have helped by giving incentives and infrastructural facilities to prevent them
CHENNAI: About 10 months after it was involved in a collision with another ship causing oil spill on Chennai coast, an Iranian gas carrier- BW Maple -got a court nod to leave Chennai port.On Tuesday, the
Gurgaon: The Environmental Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) on Wednesday lashed out at NHAI for not following construction norms at the ongoing flyover-underpass project sites along NH-8, while giving
Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre says diabetes epidemic in the country can be slowed down with a little change in lifestyle and healthy eating India is among the countries which has the largest
BENGALURU: Five children have died in the last five days due to dengue in governmentrun Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH) in Bengaluru. Three of them were from Ballari and one each from Kolar
Officials are struggling to contain a widespread deadly outbreak of plague thats been wreaking havoc in the country since late August. At least 45 people are reported to have died from the outbreak,
Seeking to reduce dependency on hydropower and embrace renewable energy technologies, the Zomba City Council (ZCC) has become the first Council in the country to install solar powered street lights in
Coffee represents a multi-hundred-billion dollar industry, consumed almost entirely by industrialized nations while being cultivated, harvested and exported by the world's poorer nations. And although
The African Union’s pledge of a $100,000 in relief items to drought victims in Somalia six months ago has just been handed over to the Somali government. The assorted items including rice, sugar, beans
South Africa is recovering from the deadly storm that hit parts of Gauteng and spread to KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape killing at least nine people. The “supercell thunderstorm” started on Monday
Whether in leafy suburbs or overcrowded shacklands‚ urban children in SA still have a huge advantage over their rural counterparts. An extensive review has revealed exactly what that advantage means
JEDDAH: The Ministry of the Environment, Water and Agriculture aims to plant 4 million trees in the Kingdom by 2020, its undersecretary for environmental affairs, Osama bin Ibrahim Faqiha, told the Saudi
Results from PREVAIL I—a large Ebola vaccine study that enrolled more than a thousand Liberians at Redemption Hospital in Monrovia during the first few months of 2015— have been published in the October
Global hunger has fallen more than a quarter since 2000, but conflict and climate shocks are beginning to reverse these gains, an annual global hunger index said Thursday. Nearly half of the 119 countries
The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, ISSER, University of Ghana, has launched the 26th edition of its flagship report; The State of the Ghanaian Economy in 2016 Report. The report
