The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government today hurriedly cleared the decks for a long-pending nuclear regulatory authority at a top-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The step was taken in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan coupled with the fear of another Anna Hazare-type protest in Jaitapur, Maharashtra, over the proposed nuclear power plant. I
The government has asked public sector banks to increase lending to the agricultural sector. Top finance ministry officials on Tuesday met public sector bank chiefs in New Delhi to discuss their performance for the previous financial year. In addition, banks have submitted their business targets for the current financial year, including loans, margins and profit, among others.
Ministerial discussions between the four countries to start tomorrow. India is likely to extend the deadline for signing a gas sales and purchase agreement for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline.
After being left unchanged for more than 10 months, diesel prices may see an increase of around Rs 2 per litre next month, providing marginal relief to the oil marketing companies (OMCs) that incur a loss of Rs 16.10 on selling every litre. Diesel accounts for about 60 per cent of the total under-recovery (revenue loss) that OMCs bear on regulated sale of diesel, kerosene and domestic LPG. T
The level of toxic water in two of the six reactors of the Fukushima plant has risen and is hampering the work of restoring its cooling functions Tokyo, April 26: The embattled operator of Japan
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit near Cilacap in Central Java on Tuesday, the Indonesian earthquake monitoring agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued. An official at the agency said the centre of the quake was offshore and he estimated there would not be much damage.
With implementation now being the buzzword in the UPA-II, the Union rural development ministry is seeking to create a large pool of trained manpower to monitor the mplementation of a number of Central schemes at the grassroots level to improve their effectiveness. The rural development ministry is unveiling a "Lab to Land" project to train Bharat Nirman volunteers, one each for every 40 househo
Amidst the raging April 26: Amidst the raging controversy over the use of endosulfan pesticide in the country despite it being banned by 81 nations and a clear assurance by environment minister Jairam Ramesh that government would consider prohibition on it if adverse affects were scientifically proved, the DYFI has sought the intervention of the Supreme Court for issuing an immediate direction for
Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said on Tuesday that a generous new compensation package would shortly be announced for the farmers whose lands have been acquired.
With an aim to attain total literacy in the country over the next 10 years, as stated by HRD minister Kapil Sibal after the release of provisional Census figures recently, the ministry has decided to involve the Union culture and information and broadcasting ministries for active collaboration in the endeavour. The human resource development ministry is seeking the help of these two ministries
<p>The meeting held between PM Manmohan Singh, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Chairman Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and other senior officials reviewed current status of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project as well as safety concerns arising out of the nuclear accident at Fukushima in Japan and their impact on India’s overall nuclear energy programme.</p>
<p>Letter to all states (except Kerala & Karnataka) by Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.</p>
<p>Our objective was to compare and evaluate the practical applicability to REDD+ of ten forest management, social, environmental and carbon standards that are currently active worldwide: Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB), CCB REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards (CCBA REDD+ S&E), CarbonFix Standard (CFS), Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Global Conservation Standard (GCS),
<p>New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and TVE Asia Pacific jointly organise a media briefing in Colombo on the Challenges of Air Quality and Mobility Management in South Asian Cities . Colombo, like Delhi, is facing a serious air pollution problem – toxic risk from rapidly growing numbers of vehicles, many of which run on diesel.</p>
<p>New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and TVE Asia Pacific jointly organise a media briefing in Colombo on the Challenges of Air Quality and Mobility Management in South Asian Cities . Colombo, like Delhi, is facing a serious air pollution problem – toxic risk from rapidly growing numbers of vehicles, many of which run on diesel.</p>
<p>This document contains the presentation by Anumita Roychowdhury of Centre for Science and Environment, at Second country media briefing on “Challenges of Air Quality and Mobility Management in South Asian cities” held in Colombo on 27 April 2011, jointly organized by CSE and TVE Asia Pacific.</p>
<p>This document contains the presentation by O A Ileperuma of University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka at Second country media briefing on “Challenges of Air Quality and Mobility Management in South Asian cities” held in Colombo on 27 April 2011, organized by CSE and TVE Asia Pacific.</p>
This document contains the presentation by Nalaka Gunawardene, Director of TVE Asia Pacific at Second country media briefing on
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Reasons for wastage include lack of collection centres and poor marketing facilities Ludhiana, April 25 Punjab pools 10 per cent of the milk in the country's total annual production that stands at 112 million tonnes.
