Guntur district is aiming at all-round, inclusive growth with a slew of projects and programmes. GUNTUR district, spread over an area of nearly 11,390 square kilometres, is bounded by Prakasam district in the south, Mahabubnagar in the west and Krishna and Nalgonda districts in the north. The district has a population of nearly 50 lakh. Under the guidance of Chief Minister K.
Industrial tree plantations for wood, palm oil and rubber are generating an increasing number of confl icts between companies and local populations. Relying on a wide-ranging literature review, this article analyses the alleged impacts of such plantations, the protesters involved, and the modalities of the confl icts.
The Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act of 2006 offer a great opportunity to provide equitable governance in tribal-dominated backward areas.
Transgenic maize engineered to express insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has become widely adopted in U.S. agriculture. In 2009, Bt maize was planted on more than 22.2 million hectares, constituting 63% of the U.S. crop.
Genetically engineered crops represent one of the most controversial and rapidly adopted technologies in the history of agriculture. First grown commercially in 1996, transgenic crops covered 135 million hectares (ha) in 25 countries during 2009.
Hospitals in India are generally lackadaisical in following stringent patient safety and infection-control standards. AN epidemiological study on the emergence of new antibiotic resistance mechanism in bacteria in India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom was recently published in Lancet, the medical journal.
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. A massive landslide that hit the village formed cracks up to five metres wide on the highway and these crept up the hills to over 100 metres.
THE Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has several ambitious plans
Much has been made in the media of the apparent contradiction between what United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently said about development and environmental concerns.
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.
<p>Hundreds of unemployed youths are earning their livelihood by harvesting of chalghuza pine (pine nut tree) in the local forest, says Ejaz Ahmed, the district in-charge of non-timber products of the forest department.
The poorest people who need the most help to adapt to a changing climate are largely being bypassed by the small amount of climate funds now being disbursed, said international aid agency Oxfam at the UN climate change talks in Tianjin, China, yesterday. In a new report, Righting Two Wrongs: Making a New Global Climate Fund Work for Poor People, Oxfam recommends a new Global Climate Fund to ens
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said that the world
Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow October 07, 2010, 0:56 IST Uttar Pradesh government has demanded an immediate Central financial assistance of Rs 2,351 crore to overcome the damages caused by recent floods. Besides, the state has urged the Centre to dispatch a team to UP to assess the flood situation and the massive damage caused by it.
Despite revised norms, the compensation package for farmers who lose land is usually just a tiny fraction of the entire project cost. What does it cost a company to compensate the people from whom it buys land?
The state minister for science and information and communication technology, Yeafesh Osman, on Wednesday urged the country
Despite a national programme to control anaemia since the seventies, there has been negligible progress Indicus Analytics / October 7, 2010, 0:35 IST Anaemia is one of India
For India's business houses and entrepreneurs, health care could be one of the most promising and rewarding sectors Arvind Singhal / New Delhi October 7, 2010, 0:26 IST The exceptionally high occupancy rate of hospital beds in the National Capital Region (NCR) in recent weeks may be partly due to rampant dengue, but it is also symptomatic of the worsening crisis in India
Pakistan is vulnerable country due to adverse effects of climate change and global warming, and sought substantial assistance from international community to expedite restoration and rehabilitation work in flood-hit areas, Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi said on Wednesday. He stated this while talking to environmental experts at concluding session of environment ministers of Isl
Toyota Motor Corp will sell a low-cost car in Thailand, adding to plans to introduce similar models in China, India and Brazil as the world
