Six firms bid for auto design lab
Six private firms have submitted bids in response to Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited
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Rally focus on forest wealth
Kokrajhar, Oct. 6: For Kesab Basumatary and Jwngsar Basumatary, students of Bashbari High School, it is not just another rally they are participating in.
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Plea to divert four-lane highway
Jorhat, Oct. 6: The West Jorhat Town Development Committee has made an appeal for diversion of the proposed four-lane highway from the Mohbandha area to Lahdoigarh citing environmental degradation, growth impediment and largescale unemployment as reasons.
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Guwahati among innovation cities
Guwahati, Oct.
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Deshmukh promises support to hybrid carmakers setting up units in country
Pune To promote indigenous manufacturing of eco-friendly vehicles, the Central government will definitely support hybrid electric vehicle makers if they showed interest in setting up their manufacturing plants in India, Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Vilasrao Deshmukh said on Wednesday.
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Mining on Shevaroy hills should end: Pandian
CPI State secretary D Pandian on Wednesday said the controversial Vedanta group should not be allowed to continue mining in the Shevaroy hills in Yercaud as the company had violated various laws. Addressing reporters along with CPI general secretary A B Bardhan at a press conference here, Pandian said Vedanta, which was recently directed by the Madras High Court to close down Sterlite Industrie
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Chorus mounts: Go, Sterlite, go
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TNHB trying to rob our lands, say Yercaud tribals
Although symbolic, the protest is a sign that the selfsufficient Malayali tribals are turning restive due to modernisation in the hill station CLAIMING ancestral ownership to the land at Pagoda Point tourist spot in Yercaud where Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) has developed resort-type individual dwellings for sale, tribals in Yercaud tried to occupy the unsold houses today and werearrested.
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New stem cell research centre to be set up
In an attempt to preserve stem cells for treating various diseases, including cancer, the state government along with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute, is going to set up a stem cell research centre at Nayabadh Mouja near the EM bypass. The initiative was taken after it was found that there is a lack of stem cell research centre in the city. Dr Asish Mukherjee, director of
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End of road for tamed jumbos?
Elephant-owners in Kerala are predicting that the proposed declaration of elephant as a heritage animal and strict adherence to recommendations in the Mahesh Rangarajan Committee report would lead to the extinction of tamed elephants in Kerala in 10 years. They are also expressing the apprehension that the participation of elephants in temple festivals and rituals will come to an end if the rec
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Swimmers fall ill, pool contamination suspected
The Commonwealth Games is facing a new crisis - reports that up to 15 swimmers on the England and Australian teams have a stomach virus potentially caused by the quality of water at the aquatics center in New Delhi. England's swim team doctor was quoted as saying Thursday that about 20 percent of the swimmers - about eight to 10 competitors - are ill with a stomach virus.
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Cabinet to notify 17,066 acres in Munnar
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to notify 17,066 acres of land in Munnar as forest land. Since the code of conduct is in place due to the local body elections, the government has decided not to declare it. It is after several rounds of deliberations in the earlier cabinet meetings that the notification has been made on Wednesday.
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Mines ministry mulling e-royalty pass system
BHUBANESWAR: The Ministry of Mines is seriously contemplating to introduce the Gujarat model of e-royalty pass system in all the states as the new initiative has paid good dividends. While the e-royalty pass has significantly improved collection of royalty, it has helped the Gujarat Government in curbing illegal mining and trading of minerals. After the introduction of e-royalty pass syste
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Traditional bodies stand on minerals
SHILLONG, Oct 6: Hima Langrin
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Diarrhoea: 35 taken ill in Jajpur village
JAIPUR: As many as 35 persons have reportedly taken ill in the last three days in Nahanakula village under Korei block in the district.
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CNG buses to make Agartala a green city
Agartala, Oct 6: After 22 years, the Tripura government will bring back town bus services in capital Agartala by introducing 75 buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) to make it a
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MinesMin to GoM: Ask firms to spell out CSR plans
The metal and mineral PSUs aspiring captive mines would henceforth have to spell out the quantum of money they intend to spend annually in their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to secure mineral concessions.
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Development of Northeast high on Government agenda
Aizwal /Agartala/Kohima, Oct 6: The Central Government has intensified its efforts to bring about overall development of the northeast region with the local residents