Fish production in NE to be doubled by 2020
SHILLONG, Sept 11 – The Centre is planning to double the fish production in North-eastern region and aims at increasing its per capita availability to 15 kg by 2020. “We have a daunting task of achieving
Fisheries
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Fishing jetty docked
The Orissa high court has put the commissioning of a controversial jetty at the Bhitarkanika sanctuary on hold
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The prawn rush
The local fishing community around Chilika continues being terrorised by a mafia bent on silencing popular discontent against the infiltration of outsiders out to mint gold by farming prawn in the
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Call to arms
INTERPOL, the international police body, has declared war against perpetrators of "crime against children". For the first time it has included the issues of child pornography, sex tourism,
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Cold start
A Russian scientist claims to have found evidence that predates by at least a factor of 10 the human colonisation of Siberia
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Green goes red
"GOING green" has turned out to be a risky proposition for paper producers in Europe, who have invested heavily in a pioneering technology that is totally chlorine free, in a bid to please their
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Looking the other way
Under GATT it is illegal for farmers to sell seeds, but this can be ignored if the transactions are small, says the GATT chief
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Model flood control
British scientists are using computer simulations to see how floods can be tackled
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NGOs launch new war against deforestation
Non governmental organisations in Ethiopia are working to create awareness among rural communities to protect the country's forest cover
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North American free trade pact delayed
A US federal judge has ruled against a free trade accord with Mexico on the ground that it will harm the environment
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US shuns big scientific projects
POLITICAL support for expensive scientific projects, plagued as they are by cost overruns, is dwindling in the US because with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the defence applications of space