Deficit monsoon rainfall in NE
With only about a week remaining for the formal withdrawal of the Southwest Monsoon from it, the North East region of the country has so far recorded deficit monsoon rainfall.
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Draft Rapid Environment Impact Statement & EMP and Risk Assessment DMP of Adani Group Mundra SEZ ltd
<p>This Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared based on the study of impacts due to all the possible pollution loads from the infrastructure facilities to be provided by Mundra SEZ Ltd. in the SEZ. The report has been prepared based on the guidelines recommended by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).</p>
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East-West Metro: PMO intervenes
KOLKATA, 4 OCT: The Prime Minister
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Leopard count in Buxa reserve
Alipurduar, Oct.
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Green signal for $120m flood project - Decks cleared for ADB funds
Guwahati, Oct. 4: The decks have been cleared for approval of the $120 million ADB-funded Assam Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Investment Program as negotiations with Assam and the Centre have been completed.
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Hydropower project design incorporating submergence costs
Submergence of land is a major impact of large hydropower projects. Such projects are often also dogged by siltation, delays in construction and heavy debt burdens-factors that are not considered in the project planning excercise. A simple
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No easing of bird flu impact on shuttlecock biz
Avian influenza that hit poultry all over the globe in recent years has left the Indian shuttlecock manufacturing industry crippled. The disease that forced various countries to cull lakhs of birds in an effort to restrain spreading the flu is still haunting the traders.
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Diabetes enters the classroom as well, finds study
Bangalore: All of 10 years and diagnosed with diabetes? In a worrying trend, Bangalore doctors are seeing more and more youngsters with Type 2 diabetes. It
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50% rise in heart diseases among Guj schoolkids
Ahmedabad: Heart diseases among children below 18 years has gone up nearly 50% compared to the previous year. This was found in a school health check-up survey. Over 6,300 school students across Gujarat were diagnosed with major heart diseases in 2009-2010 during the check-up.
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Nobel in medicine for IVF pioneer
Brit Scientist
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Take steps to curb jumbo deaths: Centre urges Odisha
Bhubaneswar: Union minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh on Monday requested chief minister Naveen Patnaik to personally take steps to check killing of jumbos due to electrocution in the state. The Union minister, in a letter to Patnaik, rued that despite alerting the environment and forest department time and again no step has been taken. He also expressed concern that
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Submit Polavaram report in 4 months: SC tells Centre
Bhubaneswar: Hearing a petition filed by the Odisha government seeking stay order on final approvals for Polavaram project, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to submit a detailed report within four weeks time. Informing this at a press briefing at the State Secretariat here on Monday, state water resources secretary Suresh Mahapatra said that the state government had filed a case
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Now its turn of Cheetals Sewage water in zoo spreads infection
The Zoo authorities seem to be in deep slumber even after the death of 18 Blackbucks reportedly due to severe intestinal infection. It appears that after Blackbucks, now it
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Now, Church slams Goa Govt over illegal mining
The Goa Roman Catholic Church has called brazen mining of iron ore in the State
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Will make Ahmedabad slum-free
DEEPAL TRIVEDI AHMEDABAD Oct. 4: The BJP and the Congress fighting local elections on Monday promised to make Ahmedabad slum free city in their manifesto released here ahead of civic bodies polls for which voting will take place on October 10 for six municipal corporations in the state.
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Bhopal gas leak Notices issued to fertiliser ministry
LALIT SHASTR BHOPA The Supreme Court has issued notices to the respondent Union ministry of chemicals and fertilisers and welfare commissioner, Bhopal, in a petition filed earlier in March 2010 by Bhopal NGOs regarding the death and injury claims arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster.
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Leg-up for NREG women staff to improve performance
In order to make the works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme gender-friendly, the Union Rural Development Ministry is planning to advise the States to make available women-friendly tools for the workers of the fair sex. The idea is to ensure women workers
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SC calls for steps against poachers
Taking into account ruthless killing of tigers and leopards
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Government mulls mega lift irrigation points
BHUBANESWAR: In view of the increasing requirement of water by the farmers and the inadequacy of the canal systems to meet the demand, the State Government is contemplating to introduce mega lift irrigation projects on an experimental basis. The steering committee of the Mahanadi Basin Development Plan which met here today discussed the issue and identified five mega lift irrigation projects.