Droughts and uncontrolled human activities are accelerating the desertification process in the scarcity-hit districts of Kutch and Banaskantha districts in
The Karnataka government has decided to take Hyderabad head on by deciding to create a separate "cyber park" in collaboration with the Software Technology Park of India (STPI), Bangalore, after stung
The second of country's eight "fast track" power projects began to produce power in Andhra Pradesh after being mired in controversy and procedural wrangles for five years.The 208 megawatt gas-based
The ministry of non-conventional energy sources has recommended a scheme to set up generation of electricity through renewable sources. Under the scheme,a company which generates electricity using
The Delhi Energy Development Agency (DEDA) incurred an expenditure of Rs. 11.36 lakhs on advertisement and publicity against sales of only 344 solar cookers, valued atRs. 1.65 lakhs, against the
The first comprehensive proposal on harvesting rainwater in depressions and pits throughout the city has been given to the Delhi government. If implemented, it is said, it would help increase water
In a country with a perennial power crunch, the people of a tiny mountain village in Kerala have taken a huge step towards meeting their own electricity needs by setting up a micro hydel power
While natural resource accounting - the environmental assessment of development programmes - is still at a conceptual stage in the country, IISc Bangalore has been working out a model for the optimum
Encouraged by the response to an earlier scheme on regulrisisng illegal connections, the Delhi Water Supply and Sewage Disposal Undertaking has launched another scheme by which unauthorised
The union ministry of textiles and the United Nations Development Pregramme ( UNDP) are planning another joint jute development programme. The ongoing five-year National Jute Development Programme
