While promising to release a sum of Rs 500 crore to keep the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) running in West Bengal at the earliest, the team from the Union rural development ministry that met the state panchayat minister today forced the state to frame a policy before disbursing further allotment to the districts under the scheme. The Central team, led by it
Ashna Davis KOCHI: Soon electricity and bio-products will be produced from solid waste in Kochi. Loro Marketing and Trading Pvt Ltd, an Abu-Dhabi-based business group of NRIs, is coming to Kochi with a project to produce electricity and bio products from solid waste with the aid of Irish-based Wilson technology, known for waste management and green energy production.
KOCHI: It is estimated that by 2030, 70 to 80 percent of Kerala's population will be concentrated in the urban areas.
A Satish PALAKKAD: If it was a rocky Munnar hill for some Chengara agitators, it is a land near a forest area at Attappadi, a part of the elephant corridor, for another group. The land, the government offered to the Chengara agitators at Kottathara village in Attappadi, is totally uninhabitable and perilous.
Large river dams might affect the dolphin population: Dr Wakid Dibrugarh, Oct 5:
With India having the highest number of oral cancer cases caused mostly by tobacco consumption and 8-9 lakh people killed due to the addiction, the Union Health Ministry has urged the Agriculture Ministry to draw up a long-term plan to find an alternative crop for all cultivators of tobacco so as to come up with a solution to containing growing tobacco consumption. In a letter to Agriculture Mi
ITANAGAR, Oct 5: To create awareness on the use of New & Renewable Energy sources, a village to village appearance programme was conducted by the Arunachal Pradesh Energy Development Agency (APEDA) at seven different villages under four circles of West Siang district on October 3 and 4. A four-member APEDA team led by the Information & Publicity Officer (IPO), T Muri is currently undertaking awar
SHILLONG, Oct 5: In a series of meeting held between the Meghalaya Chief Secretary and other senior officials of Finance, Health & Family Welfare, Education and Industries and Commerce departments since yesterday, a delegation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) has identified some areas on a priority basis.
Misgivings still persist in Assam By Barun Das Gupta North-East India has a vast and untapped potential of hydro-power, estimated at 35,000 MW. For decades, it had been a constant grievance of the people of the area that the government was doing nothing to tap it which could usher in prosperity to this backward region. But the people have since grown wise.
BHUBANESWAR: In the face of growing concerns over e-waste disposal across the country, the Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) is ready to undertake intensive mapping of the waste management and handling scenario in the State.
SHILLONG: The KHADC is planning to come up with projects to protect and preserve the various water bodies and resources in the Khasi Hills even as it has appointed the Martin Luther Christian University as a consultant to prepare the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for the projects. "The DPRs for these projects would be completed within a week's time.
BHUBANESWAR: Good agriculture growth still eludes the State. As per the mid-term appraisal report of the Eleventh Plan, the growth of agriculture during the period 2005-09 has been only 2.08 per cent.
Esther David Lately, since we have been reading and seeing changes in the river Sabarmati in the context of the riverfront development project, rivers are very much on the mind. So, while going to Vadodara, it was interesting to study the scenery between both cities.
Villagers Living In Fear Anindo Dey & Neha Lalchandani | TNN Jaipur/New Delhi: The strayed tiger spotted near Mathura on Monday continued to elude forest officials for the second day. On Tuesday, the animal, identified as a young sub-adult male, was spotted about two to three times at different spots near Beri village, about 8-9km away from the national highway.
BHUBANESWAR: Concerned over the death of elephants due to electrocution, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said that the State Government had prepared an elephant management plan and identified specific corridors for the pachyderms. Addressing a function to mark the 56th wildlife week here today, the Chief Minister said death of human beings due to elephants and death of elephants due to hum
Palak Nandi | TNN Toleshar Charnan (Jodhpur): This dusty village on the outskirts of Jodhpur, nearly 40 kilometres from the city, had an unusual visitor on Tuesday when Prince Charles arrived here for a glimpse of the village lifestyle and the unique water harvesting methods prevelant in the region. The prince, who arrived in Jodhpur for a day
BHUBANESWAR: ELIMINATING hunger from the State seems a distant possibility if the results of the latest survey report
Jaipur: Activists at the ongoing mazdoor satyagraha near the Statue Circle here have demanded that the government first initiate action on complaints of anomalies which emerged during the audit of NREGS in the state and thereby set an example of a transparent system before discussing about the virtues of the rural employment scheme at the collectors
There has been decline in the number of malaria cases this year claim Health authorities in Chandigarh. Talking to the media on Wednesday, Director of Health and Family Welfare, Dr M S Bains, said till August, the department collected 56,989 slides of blood against 53,083 during the corresponding period of 2009.
Due to hard work and help from the state government's Horticulture Department, the life of a medium category farmer Tularam Patel has completely changed. Tularam, a resident of village Mohgaon Kalan in Seoni district, had only 1.20 hectares of land. He used to grow wheat on this land but had to face difficulty in meeting the requirements of his family.
