As many as 104 testing labs will be set in Madhya Pradesh with a view to ensuring quality of water. These laboratories will be set up in two phases at sub-division level under Public Health Engineering Department. In the first phase, 70 laboratories will be established in the year 2011 and the rest of 34 labs will be set up in the year 2012.
Need of the hour is to adopt eco-friendly lifestyle pattern, says Barnala Chennai: Launching Youth Exnora International here on Thursday, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala asked the youth to volunteer themselves in the mission to protect the earth from the perils of climate change. In his address, the Governor said the country had huge youth power and brain power and there was a need to channel
Constant efforts are being undertaken to increase milk production in the state. The implementation of Acharya Vidyasagar Go-Samvardhan Yojana is being undertaken under the 11th Five-Year Plan on the recommendations of Rajya Samanya Nirdhan Varg Kalyan Ayog by five regional Dairy Federations.
CHENNAI: National, State and local governments should adopt a building code to promote ecologically sustainable business growth models and pave way for India to become a global leader in Green Businesses, said Jamshyd N.
The Climate Change and Environmental core Competency Cell, a students' academic cell of the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal is organising EnviroConclave 2010, a national conclave on 9 October, 2010. The theme of the conclave is 'Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Business in the 21st Century'.
Further quarrying should not be allowed: panel MADURAI: A three-member commission appointed by the Madras High Court Bench here has concluded that excess sand quarrying on five sites along the stretch of Tamirabarani, the only perennial river of the State flowing through Tuticorin and Tirunelveli districts, has created an ecological imbalance. In its report submitted before a Division Bench
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Thiruvananthapuram: The city-based Biotech Centre for Development of Biogas Technology and other Nonconventional Energy Sources has secured an Indian patent for a portable domestic biowaste treatment biogas plant developed by it. Unlike conventional biogas plants that require cattle dung as feedstock, the plant developed by Biotech can run on household and kitchen waste.
Mumbai A month after it took up the task of cleaning the oil spill, the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) said the shores of Alibaug should be cleaned within the next 10 days but the Navy Nagar in Colaba was the worst-affected and the shores can be completely cleaned only in three months. TERI director Dr Banwari Lal said it would take at least three more months to bring down the the level
Mumbai Water supply will remain total with the BMC deciding not to re-impose the 15 per cent cut it had lifted during the festival season in September. After a number of meetings and constant pressure from corporators, municipal commissioner Swadheen Kshatriya announced on Thursday that the lakes the city depends on have filled up after a good monsoon and the city will get its full quota of 335
Days before the state government sends the Union Environment Ministry
G Saravanan The next time you hear that familiar, nasty buzz near your ears, you can safely assume that you're not in Chennai. How else do you interpret the recent data collected by the Chennai Corporation on mosquito density?
KOHIMA, Oct 7: The NSCN-K has been irked by the alleged threat to the Intanki Reserve Forest because of the flooding of Nagas from Manipur into the reserve forest in Nagaland in the last 10 years.
Aizawl, Oct 7: Cracks have developed on the earth
SEIJOSA, Oct 7: A sleepy town, Seijosa in East Kameng district bordering Assam, was jolted awake by a high intensity cyclone accompanied by heavy rainfall and thunderstorm that left behind a trail of destruction in the entire subdivision.
Guwahati: Environment activists on Thursday successfully tested a speed-detection gun on a train passing by a bird sanctuary in Guwahati. The demonstration for forest officials toward enforcing train speed restrictions is aimed at preventing elephants being run over. People for Ethical Treatment to Animals (PETA) had in response to the killing of seven elephants by speeding trains in West Be
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 people had died of cholera and diarrhoea in the State as on September 15.
Activists and many residents blame a hydel project for the growing frequency of landslides in some Uttarakhand villages. THE nearly 3,500 residents of Bhatwadi village along the Uttarkashi-Gangotri highway in Uttarakhand saw their world come crashing down around them on the night of August 12/13.
