Water-borne diseases on the rise in East Godavari
Kakinada, Oct.
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Crop management gets smarter
Manish, Mysore, Oct 11, DH News Service: Gone are the days when farmers had to visit the agriculture department to know about farming details needed for growing crops. If the
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Tunnel ready to skirt rubble - Junior defence minister to review NH work today
Gangtok, Oct. 11: Sikkim
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MNREGA workers' pay hike in a limbo
Dilemma over payment of minimum wages to labourers engaged under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) continues even after both the Central and the state governments having accepted that the prescribed wages should be given. Activist Aruna Roy and her team have been staging a sit-in protest at the Statue Circle since October 2 demanding for an increase in the minimu
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Tiger trail now leads to Ghana sanctuary
Exactly one week after it strayed into Uttar Pradesh, a missing tiger from Ranthambhore was believed to have been spotted in the Ghana Wildlife Sanctuary on Monday.
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Forest officials identify degraded land for plantation
If a proposal by the forest department takes off, one of the most ambitious campaigns for reclaiming land for plantations would be carried out in the state. The plan includes reclaiming waterlogged land around rivers, non-cultivable land around ravines and saline land for cultivation of trees.
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India trails Pak, Lanka in hunger index
New Delhi: Despite witnessing high economic growth during the last few years, India has been ranked below many of its neighbouring countries like China and Pakistan, a global hunger index published on Monday by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said. One of the few economies to register healthy growth while large parts of the world see a recession, India has been ranked 67th
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Adult literacy programme in Kalahandi
BHAWANIPATNA: The delay in the implementation of Sakhar Bharat Adult Literacy Programme in Kalahandi has raised a question mark on the success of the programme in the given time frame.
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New CRZ draft to sort out old mess
The Environment and Forest Ministry on Monday mounted FAQs (frequently asked questions) on the draft Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification issued on September 15 inviting suggestions and objections within 60 days, pointing out 10 major issues of the 1991 notification it seeks to tackle. It says the new objective of the 2010 notification is to ensure livelihood security to communities along t
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Create jumbo space, says NREGA advisor
DHENKANAL: Despite shortcomings in MGNREGS like low wage and interference of middlemen, functioning of the scheme in Dhenkanal is satisfactory, said Dipak Bhattacharya, advisor to Government of India on NREGA, at a press meet here recently. He visited a number of blocks and reviewed the scheme at a meeting. Bhattacharya visited villages in Odapada, Hindol, Sadar and Gondia blocks and interac
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Political executive also to blame for vaccine units closure: panel
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: There is
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State to revamp public transport system
The state government is looking forward to revamping the public transportation system in order to decrease the number of private cars, and thereby reduce traffic congestion by improving public transport, said Mr Asok Bhattacharya, state minister for municipal affairs and urban development.
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Nigeria embracing safer e-waste recycling
Louise Tickle People in developing countries who make a living scavenging the dumps of electronic equipment thrown away by the first world face daily hazards most of us never consider as we gaily order our new mobile, laptop or flat-screen television.
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Abu Dhabi shifts plans for clean-energy city
Adam Schreck A $22 billion clean-energy city being built in the desert outside Abu Dhabi will no longer aim to produce all its own power, the developer revealed on October 10 following a wide-ranging review that retools some of the project's ambitions. Plans originally called for Masdar City to become a self-contained
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IVRCL to set up water treatment chemicals unit
HYDERABAD: Promoters of IVRCL and Kemira Oyj of Finland have agreed to form a joint venture to manufacture water treatment chemicals at Visakhapatnam. The unit to be set up with an estimated $10 million investment is expected to be operational in six to eight months. Kemira, IVRCL and its construction equipment and water infrastructure arm Hindustan Dorr-Oliver (HDO) have also decided to for
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Govt board to monitor pollution during Pujas
Kolkata, 11 Oct: The noise level and other environment-related parameters would be monitored by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board during the Puja festival beginning this week. A number of teams will monitor noise pollution from microphones and crackers from 13 October till October 17 in and around Kolkata, WBPCB chairman, Prof.
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VS writes to Manmohan for ban on Endosulfan
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking a ban on the production and use of Endosulfan. In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Chief Minister said that the sufferings caused by the aerial spraying of the pesticide on the estates of the Plantation Corporation of Kerala were continuing despite the ban on its use there.
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Jairam Ramesh cancels Central Zoo Authority meeting in city
Pune Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has cancelled his visit to Pune to chair the meeting of Central Zoo Authority (CZA) at Rajiv Gandhi zoological park and research centre citing
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Railways to run Sealdah-Howrah vehicles for old & infirm
KOLKATA, 11 OCT: Railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today inaugurated 10 battery-operated environment friendly 10-seater small vehicles at Sealdah Railway station. Miss Banerjee said the vehicles will ply between Sealdah and Howrah railway stations and will carry senior citizens and physically-challenged people free of cost. She inaugurated long-distance trains between Sealdah and Ajmer, Sea
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Patel optimistic: clearance in a month, airport phase-I by 14-15
Mumbai Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel is optimistic the Navi Mumbai airport will get final environment clearance in a month and the the first phase will be in operation by 2014-15.