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The Tamil Nadu High Court has directed the Pondicherry Distilleries Ltd, an undertaking of the Government of Pondicherry, not to proceed with construction of its proposed distillery unit in the

Ms Medha Patkar, convenor of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, who is now in the Capital to organise a public hearing of workers and labourers, has alleged "brutal oppression of thousands of protestors at

Even as the former Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr. Shankarsinh Waghela, took out a "Narmada Rath Yatra" from the remote Kutch district, an all party meeting organised by the State Government decalred its

"Rain-water harvesting is the only permanent answer to the chronic problem of paucity of water in the Capital," the Delhi Chief Minister, Mr. Sahib Singh Verma, stated here today. Inaugurating a

Farm experts are in favour of changing the existing cropping pattern in Punjab. The adoption of rice-wheat rotation has resulted in a heavy withdrawal of plant food nutrients from the soil, which has

The Pakistani Government will seek to contest jointly with the Indian Government the grant of a patent on basmati rice to an American firm, authorities said.Disclosing this, a senior officer at the

The completion and commissioning of the 60-mw Rangit project, 10.5 per cent increase in generation, 12.7 per cent increase in gross margin and 8.9 per cent increase in net profit as percentage of the

Reliance Industries Ltd is poised to get the contract for the Goa water supply project, having emerged as the lowest bidder. If successful, this will mark RIL's foray into water supply projects. The

Wildlife is definitely not an issue that should figure on the agenda of the External Affairs ministry. But the Minister of State Foreign Affairs, Ms Vasundhararaje Scindia, who happens to be a

Angry farmers blocked roads and pelted stones to enforce the statewide bandh they had called to protest against debt-induced suicides by colleagues. Police officials said at least 1,800 farmers were