Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
The United Progressive Alliance government has drafted a showpiece bill to guarantee food for each and every poor person in India. But the government is yet to define who is poor. After objections from within and outside the government, the Empowered Group of Ministers (egom) that drafted the National Food …
PAINTING>> FOOD • USA To explain the super-sized American fare, scholars have turned to an unusual source: artists’ renderings of the New Testament’s Last Supper. Their findings show servings are marching heavenward for 1,000 years. Brian Wansink of Cornell University and his brother Craig, a bible sch olar at Virginia …
India, like the rest of the world, is experiencing an epidemic of diabetes, a chronic disease characterized by dangerous levels of sugar in the blood that cause cardiovascular and kidney disease, which lower life expectancy. The prevalence of diabetes (the proportion of the population with diabetes) has been increasing steadily …
Gandhinagar: Keeping in view a sharp spurt in the demand for quality fish, the state government has launched a major initiative to market fresh catch in Gujarat
KOLKATA, 25 APRIL: Consulting Engineering Service (India) Private Limites, (CES) in collaboration with Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) would set up a research centre within the Besu campus to promote green movement. Mr Sudhangsu Sekhar Chakraborty (in SNS photo), chairman and managing director of CES, said to reduce consumptive …
The barriers created by stunted agricultural growth for industrial development have constituted a recurrent theme in debates on Indian economic policy. This essay brings out these debates in terms of the disproportionality caused by the disparate rates of industrial and agricultural growth. It examines the continued relevance of the agriculture-industry …
The national Capital, which has been witnessing frequent power cuts for the last few days, will receive an additional 100 MW of electricity from Central power generating stations. Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Thursday directed to immediately release the additional power to Delhi. The direction came following the …
MUMBAI: If the BMC has its way, it will soon be mandatory for all hoardings in Mumbai to use solar energy instead of the conventional energy. The BMC first put forward the proposal through former mayor Shubha Raul, who had written to the state government, urging them to make it …
With climate change and global warming all set to script the future course of the history of mankind, there is a call for reinventing development, said Sunita Narain, director of Centre for Science and Environment. Addressing a seminar on environment and sustainable development held on the occasion of launching of
While the official estimates of poverty in India are derived from the consumption expenditure data, economic proxies are increasingly used to explain the differentials in health and healthcare utilisation in population-based surveys. Using data from the World Health Survey, India, 2003, covering a nationally representative sample of 10,750 households and …
BHUBANESWAR: Food security in Orissa continues to be a cause for concern despite the much vaunted Rs 2-a-kg-rice scheme of the State Government. The reason is allotment of 25 kg against the stipulated 35 kg a month. In 2002, the then Union Government had raised the scale of issue under …
37 per cent of the expenditure was on food items and 63 per cent on non-food items NEW DELHI: The monthly per capita expenditure in the urban areas of Delhi is the highest in the country, reveals a report on
Mumbai: With the new Bharat Stage IV emission norms coming into effect from yesterday, oil companies are gearing up to meet the requirements of Mumbai, an official said today. The metropolis requires more than 800-lakh litres of fuel every month and three oil companies will supply both petrol and diesel …
The latest report on consumption levels and pattern of households in Delhi by State Directorate of Economics and Statistics. Provides details on important demographic features & other aspects of living conditions like energy source for cooking/lighting, dwelling ownership type, etc. See Also Feature: Changing livelihood pattern of slum dwellers in …
