Orissa gives bauxite mine on the sly to Balco
The Orissa government took a quiet decision to lease out huge bauxite reserves to Bharat Aluminium Co Ltd (Balco) just a few days before the Union government finalized the company's privatization on Wednesday.
331 HIV positive cases in State
The Health MInister Dr Kamala Kalita today informed the Assam State Assembly that altogether 331 HIV positive cases have been detected in the State so far.
Jojoba plantations in Rajasthan wasteland
The two mother plantations of the high value industrial crop, Jojoba established in 110 hectares of wasteland in Rajasthan four years back, have come of age. Developed on the technology package obtained from HAIGUD, Israel these plants raised within the stipulated period through vegetative propagation, are available for commercial plantation …
Solar power for Rajasthan Assembly
The new Rajasthan Assembly building, to be inaugurated here on March 24 before the Budget session, will house a 25 KW grid interactive solar energy project to supply power to the entire building. The plant will be set up at a cost of Rs. 72.7 lakhs, two thirds of which …
Bangalore to host biotech meet in April
Bangalore will host a three-day national biotechnology conference, Bangalore Bio.com 2001, from April 15. The conference will be organized by the Vision Group on Biotechnology, constituted and by the Trade Fairs and Conferences International.
A tale of three polluted rivers
For the people of Bhadravati town the silver lining is distinctly missing from the dark cloud of toxic coal dust, sulphur gas and air pollutants from the Mysore Paper Mills factory which hovers perennially over the MPM labourers' quarters. Their anguished complaints to the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, the …
Dolly cloner makes breakthru with cow
PPL Therapeutics, the firm that cloned Dolly the sheep, revealed on Friday that it had succeeded in turning a cow's skin cell into a heart cell, in a breakthrough that could curtail controversial research on human embryos.
MoU signed for waste-to-power project
After many fits and starts, Chennai Corporation's ambitious and path-breaking waste-to-power project took the first step forward on Friday with representatives of a private firm and the civic body signing a Memorandum of understanding (MoU).
Bhutan must reduce fuel-wood consumption: report
Presenting a report "Fuel-wood Consumption in Bhutan and Alternative Energy Sources", local consultant Pema Norbu pointed out that the annual fuelwood consumption in Bhutan is one of the highest in the region. The per capita consumption in Bhutan is three cubic meters of fuelwood.
Ecologists threaten to go on strike
The local environmentalists have threatened to go on a hunger strike if the procedure for releasing funds for the catchment area treatment plan around the Chamera Hydroelectric Project (Stage-II) is not streamlined soon.