Improving Haryana's land acquisition model
Krishnamurthy V Subramanian We had earlier argued that land acquisition transactions between farmers and private parties suffer from
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Switch to a sustainable, low-carbon model
Jogesh Doley Meghalaya
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India, Germany agree to take business partnership forward
India and Germany have taken a new step forward to boost trade and investments between the two countries.
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The business of Indian businesses...
Nitin Verma Today we
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Non-GMO molecular breeding may boost hybrid-rice output
Sandip Das New Delhi: India
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Proposal to have developers bid afresh for coal blocks shot down
The power ministry has questioned a high-level committee
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Broadening the basket
Indian agriculture is already increasingly demand-driven. This will accelerate in future. More than two decades ago, we argued that agricultural diversification in India was basically driven by higher growth and domestic demand. The major impact of faster income growth was on domestic demand, leading a process of demand diversification in a big way.
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GBA to hold protest march for RP 2021 in Panjim
After many reminders through many press notes the Goa Bachao Abhiyan has finally decided to get real.
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Camurlim locals want RP 2021 notified soon
Questioning the long delay in notifying the Regional Plan 2021, Camurlim villagers on Sunday demanded that the government expedite the process and notify the plan at the earliest. At the Sunday gram sabha, members demanded to know the fate of the draft Regional Plant 2021 approved by the panchayat body.
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Extension of drinking water scheme sought
TIRUPATTUR: Member of Legislative Assembly of Tirupattur T.K. Raja has requested Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to extend the Hogenakkal drinking water scheme to various parts of Vellore district . In a letter addressed to Mr.
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NGOs try special guns to slow trains, check jumbo deaths
Two weeks after seven wild elephants were killed by a speeding train in Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, three well-known environment protection groups have successfully carried out demonstration of an imported speed-detection gun on trains in an elephant corridor near Guwahati.
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Hybrid amla variety proves to be fruitful
Horticulture official shows the right way of cultivation A BOUNTY:Organically-grown amla at a homestead garden in Palayamkotti. TIRUNELVELI: A hybrid variety of Amla, NA-4 (Kanchan), planted in a homestead garden nine years ago, is continuously giving higher yield, thanks to organic farming techniques. About 25 kg of fruits have been harvested in the second phase at an interval of just se
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Two hand-reared tigresses to be shifted to Panna
Bhopal: Two hand-reared tigresses from Madhya Pradesh's Kanha Tiger Reserve would soon be shifted to adjacent Panna sanctuary to give company to three translocated big cats there, the first such experiment in the country.
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Landslides cut off N-E
Massive landslides triggered by incessant rains in the past few days have cut off road links between Nagaland and Manipur with several stretches of the NH 39 being washed away or buried under debris. While a major landslide took place in Nagaland capital Kohima, the national highway was also cut off at Tobio village, seven km from Tadubi in Manipur.
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Reject protectionism in climate talks: Jairam Ramesh
Ananth Krishnan TIANJIN: Climate officials from developing countries met here on Sunday to come up with a strategy to ensure that any climate agreement will have provisions to restrict attempts by developed nations to impose trade penalties on carbon emitters. Officials from the BASIC group of developing countries
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BASIC ministers meet in China, work on plan for Cancun climate summit
Environment Ministers from key developing nations who are part of the BASIC grouping, including India and China, began a key meeting on Sunday to work out a common strategy at the crucial Cancun Climate Summit to oppose attempts by the West to
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GM mosquitoes to fight dengue
The insects have been engineered so that their offspring die quickly. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's Health Minister on Sunday said the country would carry out a landmark field trial by releasing genetically modified mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever by the end of the year. Malaysia's death rate from dengue fever has spiralled 53 per cent this year and the public is being urged to take ac
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Funding the climate clean-up
The United Nations climate change talks in Tianjin, China, witnessed some progress on the issue of financing of climate change mitigation and adaptation but there is a significant gap between the level of funding required and what has been committed so far.
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Much of Hyderabad is critically polluted
HYDERABAD needs to contain the ever-increasing air pollution and traffic congestion, and soon. For any delay, warns NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), will take a toll on the health of its people.
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Breakthrough and euphoria at Chile mine
Alexei Barrionuevo & Christine Hauser A drilling rig punched through to the underground site where the miners have been trapped, raising cheers and hopes. It was a moment of euphoria. At 8:05 a.m.