Hindustan Petroleum Corporaiton has entered into fuel supply agreements (FSA) with 12 major independent power producers setting up new power generation
The Centre has released Rs 24 crores during the current financial year for desert development in Rajasthan.The scheme is meant to stop the desert from spreading further in the
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed a notificaiton by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) banning weddings/functions at farm houses with effect from the new year. A vacation bench while
An international team of scientists has found a gene, inherited by people with a rare intestinal disease which increases the risk of cancer. The Institute of Cancer Research has said scientists from
It was the landmark year for the national environment policies with the Ministry of Environment and Forests coming up with several legislative and administrative measures. The measures taken include
A breakthrough in earthquake prediction through mathematical statistics, an advanced branch of stochastic and processes, has now come very close to predicting earthquakes and seaquakes, thanks to the
The Planning Commission has cleared the construction of Mewat Canal, meant to provide uninterrupted irrigation to about 2,50,000 acres of arid land in 300 odd villages of the Mewat areas of Gurgaon
The tragic suicides by 11 cotton farmers in Warangal district following the massive destruction of the cotton crop have exposed the threat posed by pesticide manufacturers not only to commercial
Professor Anand Swarup Arya, an internationally renowed earthquake expert, has been awarded the prestigious Sasakawa-dha Disaster Prevention Award for 1997 by the United
The indigenously developed multi-barrel rocket launcher Pinaka has moved a step closer to induction in the Army following its successful test firing at the Chandipur-on-sea range in Orissa over the
