The strategically important Srinagar-Leh National Highway was thrown open to vehicular traffic today after it remained closed for more than five months due to heavy snowfall. The highway was thrown open by the General-Officer-in-Commanding of Srinagar-based 15 Corps of the Army, Lt-Gen SA Hasnain.
- NGO identifies three endangered species in different pockets of Sivasagar district Jorhat: Seven Look, an NGO, has launched several awareness schemes in Upper Assam to conserve turtles.
Domestic consumers also evincing interest in solar energy COIMBATORE: Increasing power cut here, which has disturbed production plans in several industries, has encouraged many to explore renewable energy options. During the last one year, nearly 1,000 MW was added to the installed wind energy capacity in the State. The State has about 1,930 wind farms.
The Punjab government has not yet taken steps to repair or replace the only incinerator installed at Holy Family Hospital which stopped functioning about two months back, forcing three government hospitals in the city to dispose of their infectious waste manually. Sources told Dawn on Sunday that since the incinerator developed faults, its management did not lift waste from District Headquarter
The World Bank yesterday signed an agreement with the Government of Sri Lanka to provide US$100 million in additional financing for the Sri Lanka Road Sector Assistance Project, the bank said.
Seven people were killed, 44 houses destroyed and 330 badly damaged as a result of the adverse weather conditions prevailing in the country, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) said yesterday. Heavy rains had affected 24,518 people especially in the Ratnapura District.
Gangtok, May 2: The trade between Sikkim and Tibet through Nathu-la did not kick off today as customs officers from India failed to reach the spot because of mudslides along Jawaharlal Nehru Marg. The slides blocked the road connecting Gangtok with Nathu-la at 9th Mile and 13th Mile yesterday afternoon, trapping some 112 vehicles carrying tourists from Chhangu Lake to Gangtok.
Sri Lanka Minister of Health, Maithripala Sirisena has pointed out that the Prevention of Mosquito Breeding Act No.
The Environment Ministry on Monday gave its final clearance to the South Korean steel major POSCO to divert 1,253 hectares of forest land for its iron and steel project in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, reposing
The recent climate change adaptation efforts in Nepal will not achieve significant results in delivering timely support to vulnerable communities unless the government makes vigorous efforts to implement National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA), warns a new Oxfam report. The report that deals with the governance of climate change adaptation financing in Nepal examines the national situati
Local people under the banner of National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Minerals Resources, Power and Port besieged Barapukuria Coal Mine yesterday protesting government's plan to go for open pit mining and demanding compensation for aman crops and postponement of the ongoing land survey. Around 1,000 people joined the 48 hour programme that began at 10:30am at the entrance to the coal mine.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has built a supercomputer, which will be India's fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second). Named Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility, it is located at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram. The new graphic processing unit (GPU)-based supercomputer, whi
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Andhra Pradesh government to file an affidavit indicating that the iron ore extracted from Obulapuram Mines and at present lying in the stockyard would not deteriorate during the rainy season as apprehended by the mining company. A three-judge Bench comprising Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices Aftab Alam and K.S.
An enforcement team of Department of Environment (DoE) in separate drives in the port city yesterday fined three factories Tk 13 lakh and seized two trucks on charges of polluting environment and cutting hill illegally. The DoE team, led by its Director (enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, conducted a drive in Lake View area under Khulshi Police Station, said a DoE release. It found around twenty
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday gave a green signal to a proposal that Bangladesh leases land in some African countries and send farmers there to grow crops like rice and cotton for its consumption as well as export. The prime minister's endorsement came after the proposal was discussed at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Secretariat, sources close to the meeting said. According to t
Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has granted the final forest clearance to Posco's Rs.54,000-crore integrated steel plant in Orissa, even while urging action against the sarpanch of one of the villages protesting against the project. Last month, Mr.
Germany on Monday launched its first commercial-size wind power park in the Baltic Sea, adding to some small existing capacity in the North Sea, operator EnBW said. The 48.3 megawatt unit called Baltic 1, which is some 16 kilometers north of the Darss/Zingst peninsula, has started feeding power into the national grid, the utility said. Baltic 1, which took three years to build and can supply
Missouri's attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to intervene and block a proposed federal plan to protect the southern Illinois town of Cairo by blowing up a levee on the Mississippi River. State Attorney General Chris Koster asked the nation's highest court for a temporary injunction to prevent the U.S.
The Israeli Government has offered its agricultural technologies for India, Israeli Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Orit Noked said here on Monday. Talking to media persons after her meeting with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at the Centre of Excellence for Vegetables at Gharaunda in Karnal district, she described
Italy's total installed photovoltaic capacity may reach 7,000 megawatts by the end of June due to a rush to sign up for expiring incentives, a senior official at Italy's state energy services agency GSE said. "I think we can arrive at 7,000 megawatts at the end of June," Gerardo Montanino, director of GSE's operating division told Reuters on the sidelines of a photovoltaic conference in norther
