Adding diversity to plate
The Government of India has proposed mandatory rice fortification to tackle the issue of malnutrition in the country. The process of fortification includes externally adding nutrients to a food item with
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Are tiger numbers in Maharashtra really up?
Even as the state forest department is happy with the marginal rise in tiger numbers from 169 in 2010 to 190 in 2014, are these numbers arrived at by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and National
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Activists write to MoEF, want construction stopped
The Statue of Unity is likely to face a legal hurdle with a group of environment activists set to move the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the state government’s ambitious project to construct the
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Farmers accuse Haryana govt of not keeping its promise to acquire land for nuclear plant
Farmers of Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district of Haryana, whose land was acquired for setting up country's largest 2,800 MW nuclear power plant, are now claiming that the state failed to keep the
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Land owners protest acquisition under old Act
Owners of 363 acres prime land in Pataudi are unhappy as the Manohar Lal Khattar government has gone ahead with the Bhupinder Singh Hooda regime's move to acquire their land under Land Acquisition Act,
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Odisha has no land allotment policy in 50 yrs
RTI activist Pradeep Pradhan on Sunday said the successive State Governments, including the incumbent Naveen Patnaik regime, have not framed any land allotment policy in last 50 years only to exercise
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CM orders vigilance probe into Kaushalya Dam work
Chandigarh, December 24: Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has directed the State Vigilance Bureau to probe the alleged irregularities in construction work of the Kaushalya Dam on the river of the same
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Costly coal
New financial analysis based on information on Coal India obtained via the Right to Information Act calls into question fundamental assumptions regarding Coal India’s long-term financial performance and
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Environment panel lacking in locus standi
A high-level committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and headed by the former Cabinet Secretary of India, TSR Subramanium with the alleged intent
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Green panel not formed as per norms: RTI reply
An RTI enquiry has found that a high-level committee, formed by the ministry of earth sciences and climate change to review environmental laws, was not constituted according to requisite administrative
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Over 30 state schools in Bageshwar have no toilets
Thirty-one government schools in Bageshwar district have failed to construct toilets for their students despite a 2012 Supreme Court order instructing all state-run schools to build toilets within six