Orissa Govt puts a rider on BALCO lease
Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik on Monday asserted that the State Government had recommended the grant of mining lease to BALCO, the public sector aluminium company caught in a disinvestment controversy, in the Sasubohumali and Pasangamali areas on the express condition that it would set up an alumina processing plant …
U.S. Hotels adopt energy surcharges
Worried by the potential impact of the Western U.S. power crisis, several big hotel chains are adding surcharges to guest's bills than risk annoying them by turning down lights or heat.
U.S., Canada lift their ban on imported Brazilian beef
The U.S. and Canada lifted a three-week import ban on Brazilian beef after determining it was free of mad-cow disease, and Mexico was expected to lift its ban.
Rural water supply scheme launched
The Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (KRWSA), an autonomous body functioning under the Irrigation Department, today launched an ambitious $ 80 million (Rs 350 crore) World Bank-aided rural water supply and sanitation project to be implemented in around 100 panchayats in the State.
Desert prevention policy planned
Top legislators are considering taking measures to combat the rampant spread of desert conditions in China. Lawmakers will make a preliminary deliberation on a draft law on preventing desert encroachment and treatment during the ongoing 20th session of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress (NPC), China's top …
At last, scientists find bones from a Tenontosaurus that didn't lose its head
The Tenontosaurus, a large plant-eating dinosaur, was to the predatory Deinonychus 110 million years ago what the wildebeest is to the lion: lunch. Paleontologists have been turning up bones of tenontosaurs for years in Montana and Oklahoma. But until now they had failed to find an intact skeleton with a …
The slow and constant leak of electricity
The "off" switch is lying to you. When electric appliances are plugged in but turned off, they are usually in standby mode, many waiting to respond to a remote control or recharging a battery on a cordless device. That continual drain can be anywhere between 5 and 26 percent of …
Drive to rid streets of pigs
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has decided to enforce a ban on rearing pigs in its sweepers' colonies and in compounds of medical college hospitals, in the wake of the killer contagion in Siliguri.
Siliguri samples sent to US centre
The West Bengal government seized on the absence of fresh admission to hospitals to claim that the situation was improving in Siliguri after the outbreak of a mystery disease, but panic continued to drive people out of the town.
U.S. doubts rise on North Korean nuclear project
The multibillion-dollar nuclear energy program at the heart of reconciliation efforts between North and South Korea faces its most severe test under the new administration in Washington. In the face of North Korean threats to jettison its agreement to halt efforts to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for technical and …