Shillong: The State Government is making efforts to protect the indigenous medicinal plants found in the State. Through the State Medicinal Plant Board (SMPB), the Government is implementing the Centrally sponsored scheme in four districts of the State to encourage the plantation of these medicinal plants. Despite the fact that Meghalaya is a biological hotspot, over-exploitation by local pe
Thanks to good rains, 12 major reservoirs in the state are brimming after several years promising not only bumper agriculture production but also enough power generation to ease the power crisis next summer. According to the Irrigation department, Nagarjuna Sagar is 96 per cent full, Nizamsagar, Srisailam and Tundabadra are filled to capacity, Srirama Sagar Project is 98 per cent full while all
Akhilesh Sourav Jha | TNN Jaipur: By next week, at least 800 houses would be connected with 24x7 water supply lines which might be a prelude to the entire city realising the dream in coming months.
THE Orissa government will file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court later this month against a high court order quashing the state
Jaipur: Forest officials from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, who are on the trail of a tiger in Mathura which had strayed from Ranthambore National Park, sawits pug marks near Rajasthan border late on Tuesday. According to sources, forest officials spotted some pug marks near the Mathura refinery late in the night.
SHAMNAD BASHEER & PRASHANT REDDY IN A MOVE WITH SIGNIFICANT RAMIFICAtions for policy-making and participatory democracy, the ministry of commerce recently threw open the issue of compulsory licensing for public debate. The move is a welcome one, as the compulsory licensing (CL) of patents is not just an esoteric intellectual property (IP) issue, but one that has wider ramifications for p
AUS and two Japanese scientists won the 2010 Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for revolutionary chemical research with uses that range from fighting cancer to producing thin computer screens. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki shared the prize for the development of
The ministry of environment has directed the multiple agencies engaged in the manufacture and marketing of crackers to take high-decibel items off the shelves, and instead promote crackers that light up.
Chief Secretary Avni Vaish held detailed review of the works of Narmada Water Supply Project today at the Mantralaya. Vaish directed to complete the project works within the time limit. He discussed the progress of the works with senior officers of the Public Health Engineering Department, Bhopal Municipal Corporation and implementation agency of the project works.
Panchayat, Rural Development and Social Justice Minister Gopal Bharagava will tour the villages where Rural Livelihood Projects are being implemented to have an on the spot review of the projects. At the general body meeting of Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihood Project held at Mantralaya today, Bharagava directed to ensure wide publicity to the effects and achievements of the project.
AIZAWL, Oct 6
NAMRUP, Oct 6
KALAIGAON, Oct 6
The much awaited festival of Durga Puja will strongly convey the message for protecting the environment and thereby secure the future of the human generation.
GUWAHATI, Oct 6
The US government
<p>Raktima Bose KOLKATA: An agreement on the general characteristics of the two 1,650 MW European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) to be set up in Maharashtra by a joint venture of French firm Areva and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is expected to be finalised by the end of 2010, Jerome Bonnafont, French Ambassador to India, said here on Tuesday.
<p>WASHINGTON, 5 OCT: American companies are unlikely to engage in nuclear trade with India till it becomes a signatory to an international convention on nuclear damage that among its provisions puts the onus of compensation on the state in case of an accident, a Congressional report has said.
<p>The Haryana Government has given its nod for the India’s first high-speed train project, after a high-level meeting held at Chandigarh under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda recently.
Nikhila Gill New Delhi: The Economic Freedom Rankings for the States of India, 2009 posts sharp changes in the overall levels of economic freedom in the states between 2005 and 2009.
