<p>The world must strengthen the ability of the International Atomic Energy Agency to make independent assessments of nuclear safety. (Editorials)</p> <p>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7344/full/472389a.html<br /> </p>
<p>Pharmaceutical firms should come clean to tackle drug contamination. (Editorial)<br /> </p>
<p>Plans to conserve the world’s tropical forests must respect the rights of indigenous peoples. (Editorial)<br /> </p>
<p>Commercial rival says gas spreading and leakage could harm US carbon-sequestration effort.</p> <p>http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110427/full/472398a.html</p>
<p>A world population analysis reveals the locations that could put the most people in danger should a nuclear accident occur.</p> <p>http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110427/full/472400a.html</p>
<p>Calls in Canada for trials of a contentious treatment for multiple sclerosis illustrate how social media can affect research priorities, say Roger Chafe and his colleagues.</p> <p>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7344/full/472410a.html</p>
<p>The Atlantic Ocean receives warm, saline water from the Indo-Pacific Ocean through Agulhas leakage around the southern tip of Africa.
Moscow declaration: first global ministerial conference on healthy lifestyles and noncommunicable disease control, Moscow, 28-29 April 2011.
<p>Mendha Lekha village in Naxal-infested Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra will become the first in the country to get the right to harvest and sell bamboo after 150 years. The right to harvest and sell bamboo was taken away by the British government over 150 years ago under the Indian Forest Act. Since then bamboo has been under the control of government.
<p>This document analyses and highlights the views and suggestions included in reports arising out of the Planning Commissions consultations with diverse stakeholders and also seeks to bring forth similarities and differences on key issues by comparing and contrasting the suggestions of ten core forums that submitted their views to the Planning Commission.</p>
New Delhi: About 300 km from the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant, Indian scientists are all set to drill an 8-km hole in the earth
Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh, who is all set to flag off harvesting of bamboo by villagers under the new Forest Rights Act, is facing severe embarrassment from the Maharashtra government which has threatened to arrest those who do so. Ramesh is all set to kick off harvesting of bamboo by the villagers of Mendha Lekha in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli village on Wednesday.
Punjab
Ranchi, April 26: Swamped by complaints against a not-so-exhaustive BPL list, which has also thrown a spanner in its ambitious ration card programme, the state government has decided to launch without delay a fresh survey of poverty-stricken families in the rural belt for which it has already received a corpus of Rs 3 crore from the Centre. In a related development, it has also extended the dea
The corporate affairs ministry is planning to promote use of green technologies by India Inc to save cost and reduce damage to environment.
Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh has proposed that the MoEF and the coal ministry jointly ascertain the environmental sensitivity of the 58 coal blocks being bid out.
We are so used to turning our eyes away when we see somebody defecating in the open that we fail to reflect on this widespread practice, prevalent much more in India than in other countries.
The government today refused to give in to demands to halt work to build nuclear power plants at Jaitapur in Maharashtra but in a big step to instil public confidence in the harnessing of nuclear energy, it decided to make the sectoral regulator, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, an independent and statutory body. The government said it will move a Bill in the monsoon session of Parliament to cre
The oral single drug formulation of Artemisinin, having potential to become resistant to malaria, has been withdrawn from India. However, some manufacturers continue to produce and export it as a mono therapy.
Construction was stopped in June last year, when ASI objected to the site
