USAID announces international biotech collaboration
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced a Collaborative Agricultural Biotechnology Initiative (CABIO) that, it says will help developing countries access and manage
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Isolated wetlands play crucial ecological role
Isolated wetlands are both exceptionally important and exceptionally vulnerable to destruction, notes a new report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The report lends urgency to calls for
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Workshop on ground water conservation
National Workshop on conservation and management of ground water will be organised at Bhopal on June 16 and
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Himachal to encourage bio-technology
Himachal Pradesh is all set to emerge as a pioneering state for harnessing vast potential of bio-technology in the Himalayas, which is the storehouse of
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Giant nukes running Earth's magnetic field?
Thousands of miles beneath our feet, a giant nuclear reactor seems to be at work deep within suggests it may be the mysterious power source behind the planet's magnetic field and thermal energy, upon
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Biotech sector urged to focus on problems of poor countries
The biotech sector must develop drugs and crops that address problems in the developing world, and work more closely with non governmental organisation, if its growing international presence is not
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Water, water everywhere...
It is often stressed that water is a scarce resource. This may appear to be so but is actually untrue. It is largely the mismanagement of this resource leading to hardships in meeting even the
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Objections on Indus Treaty
Pakistan has once again threatened to invoke a clause in the Indus Water Treaty, which calls for examination by neutral experts to verify its objections over the construction of the hydro electric
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Drinking water scheme review likely
The Rs 1,940-Sector Reforms project on drinking water is not progressing up to the mark and hence a thorough review would be undertaken, the Union Minister for Rural Development, Mr. M Venkaiah
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Pakistan to seek legal help on Indus treaty violation
Pakistan has formally warned India that it would refer to a "neutral expert" the violations of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 for a verdict if its objections to diversion of the Chenab River were not
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Jagmohan to attend seminar on Saraswati
The Union Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister, Jagmohan, would visit Haryana tomorrow to take stock of the research conducted so far to trace origin and course of sacred river Saraswati by
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Baba Amte's house forcibly closed?
The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has alleged that the Madhya Pradesh Government has locked up the residence of the veteran social worker Baba Amte, at Chhoti Kasravad, in the Nimad area of the
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PTI rejects Thal canal, Kalabagh projects
The workers' convention of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI), Sindh, Pakistan held passed several resolutions rejecting the greater Thal canal and the Kalabagh dam projects till a consensus was
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Narmada waters to reach Barmer
The water from the Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat to be supplied to Jalore and Barmer districts in south west Rajasthan through the Narmada canal is expected to solve the perennial drinking water
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Shivajinagar may see the end of corroded water pipes
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), after successfully completing the pilot project to replace corroded water lines in Ulsoor and Cubbonpet, has purposed to extend the project to
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Deepening water crisis
Water crisis in Jammu city is acute and requires immediate attention. The authorities instead plead a shortfall of one hundred lakh gallons per day and do nothing about the gap between the
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Astronauts set U.S. record for endurance in space
Two astronauts woke up with an American space endurance record, but both admitted that it would be psychologically daunting to challenge a world record set by a Russian in the 1990's. In space now
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Rs 130 crore water scheme for Kovai city
The Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board has drawn up a Rs 130 crore additional drinking water scheme for providing uninterrupted water supply for Coimbatore city. The requirements of Kovai
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Officials prepare plan to solve water problem
In an attempt to resolve drinking water problem on a permanent basis, the Prakasam district authorities in Andhra Pradesh have prepared a comprehensive plan at a cost of Rs 391 crore. Funds released
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Chennai may get more Krishna water
Chennai may get two more tmcft of Krishna water from the Kandaleru reservoir. At present, the storage at Kandaleru, the terminal storage point in Andhra Pradesh and located about 200 km north of the