The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) will not take up power project proposals which have failed to tie up fuel linkages. The first casualty of this decision is the 520 MW, Rs 2,500 crore
The locket and tabeez that the grandparents tied around the neck of the young ones weren't, after all plain superstition. They served another purpose : of applying light pressure on the upper chest
Indian scientists have developed a novel method of decomtaminating effluents from the the pulp and paper industry using chemical wastes from the same factory. The new method, devised by the
Battery manufacturers will soon be required by the government to pick up scrapped lead-acid batteries from the market against their volume of sales and smelt them in a captive unit or any
Bangladeshis got a re-glimpse of the country's fast disappearing wild Asian elephant last month. A newspaper carried photograhps of one of the endangered animals, shot dead and awash in blood after
The US-based Detratech has formed a joint venture with the Indian company, Technofab to set up a Rs 1 crore common effluent treatment project in the chemical zone at Kurkumbh in Pune district.
The Union Minister for Environment and Forest, Prof Saifuddin Soz, announced that Rs 291 crore would be spent on the preservation of the Dal Lake in Srinagar in a phased manner . In addition to this,
Onion prices are skyrocketing in Nashik district, Asia's largest onion producing centre, due to heavey losses, following unseasonal rains accompanied by hailstroms in the
Genetically engineered soyabeans are causing a furore in Europe, with environmenalists and health activists seeking to bring a ban on the soyabeans from being sold in the region on the gorunds that
