Pranab: Fund meant for research and innovative projects in clean energy technologies Jairam: With more coal consumption, this will greatly benefit MNRE, MoEF schemes NEW DELHI: With Rs.3,700 crore already in the kitty, the National Clean Energy Fund is a new cash cow for the Union Ministries of New and Renewable Energy and Environment and Forests.
JAIPUR: Farmer groups in Rajasthan have contested the claim of U.S.-based agricultural bio-technology giant Monsanto that its agreement signed with the State Government last July would make a sustainable improvement in farmers' lives and affirmed that the pact would in fact leave the very productive base of agriculturists
Water production at the Chandrawal and Wazirabad water treatment plants was resumed on Wednesday after the ammonia levels in the Yamuna were restored to the permissible levels.
The plan to start taking measures against spread of vector-borne diseases early in the city this year seems to have hit a roadblock with questions being raised over the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's procurement procedure for anti-mosquito breeding provisions at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuesday. In view of this, the civic body has decided to postpone the proposals relating to pu
Japan has submitted proposals on new market mechanisms to cut greenhouse gases to the United Nations, aiming to complement UN talks by developing ways to use its low carbon technology. Japan, the world
Global drugmakers have started launching generic or low-priced version of popular medicines and have slashed prices of their existing products to increase market share in India, taking on local competitors in their own game. French drugmaker Sanofi Aventis has launched a range of generic drugs, some at half the price of competing brands of local companies, while Japan
In another setback to Lavasa Corporation Limited, the expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has deferred environmental clearance to the first phase of India
Rare species of sharks, humongous groupers, colourful aberrant fishes and much more will be on extensive display soon in the city. The decks are being set up to build a world-class marine aquarium on the lines of renowned underwater aquariums in Singapore and Dubai.
Toys manufactured locally as well as those imported from China have high quantity of
The state primary education department has assured that the mid-day meals for students in Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)-run schools would start within the next few days. DNA had earlier highlighted the suspension of the meals for a majority of over two lakh students in municipal schools in the city for the last three months. This was due to the failure of the agency in supplying rice to t
<p>This is Comprehensive Management Action Plan (CMAP) for Conservation of the Ousteri lake prepared by Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON) details various conservation and management interventions to be taken up for long-term sustainability of this lake.</p>
With the Centre making an allocation of Rs21,000 crore for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in the Union Budget, the education department of the Pune Zilla Parishad (ZP) exuded confidence that its proposal for Rs184 crore for the next fiscal would be approved by the Union government. The Pune district has received the second highest allocation of funds under SSA in the state after Thane, considering
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in a meeting organised at the Congress Bhawan here said that the Barak Valley people will get Rs 1000 crore if the electorate gives the Congress party 15 seats in the forthcoming Assembly election. Gogoi said that he is aware about the problems of the Barak Valley. For this reason he has requested Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for Rs 1000 crore.
<p>Birth-cohort studies offer invaluable data on the links between childhood development and later life, but today's efforts could learn something from a pioneering project that turns 65 this week.</p>
<p>Counting the cost of decades of breakneck development, Chinese scientists and policy-makers outlined the daunting challenges they face in trying to halt the country's environmental degradation.</p>
<p> In 1946, scientists started tracking thousands of British children born during one cold March week. On their 65th birthday, the study members find themselves more scientifically valuable then ever before.<br /> </p>
<p>Palaeontologists characterize mass extinctions as times when the Earth loses more than three-quarters of its species in a geologically short interval, as has happened only five times in the past 540 million years or so. Biologists now suggest that a sixth mass extinction may be under way, given the known species losses over the past few centuries and millennia.
<p>The Milankovitch theory states that global climate variability on orbital timescales from tens to hundreds of thousands of years is dominated by the summer insolation at high northern latitudes. The supporting evidence includes reconstructed air temperatures in Antarctica that are nearly in phase with boreal summer insolation and out of phase with local summer insolation.
<p>A novel explanation for the long-term temperature record in Antarctic ice cores invokes local solar radiation as the driving agent. This proposal will prompt palaeoclimate scientists to pause and to go back to basics.</p>
