A total of 11.57 lakh cancer cases was reported in India this year, a 15.7 per cent increase over the 10 lakh cases reported in 2012, Ravi Mehrotra, director of Indian Council of Medical Research’s National
Coming right out of the agrarian crisis that has rocked their homeland, six farmers from Vidarbha, the eastern region of Maharashtra which has been in the spotlight for a spate of farmer suicides in r
The Chief Ministers of five mineral-based States on Saturday demanded a rethink on the New Mineral Policy while charging that the document, in its current form, favoured foreign direct investment and
A century ago, the feudal species made a fetish of tiger shooting.
Much of what Indian agriculture is today is due to the work of state agriculture universities and deemed agriculture university like the Delhi-based Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI).
Output Not Growing Any More, Per Capita Production Down To 70s Levels.
Focus on agriculture to reduce poverty
Among the great cities of the world, Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal and the home of nearly 15 million people, is often mentioned as the only one that still has a large fleet of hand-pulled rickshaws. April 2008
<p>The Prime Minister has released India’s national action plan on climate change. For those engaged in the business of environment and climate, the plan may offer nothing new or radical. But, as I see it, the plan asserts India can grow differently, because “it is in an early stage of development”.
<p>Let’s cut to the chase. If we are serious about climate change then we have to be serious about changing (drastically) the way the world generates and uses its energy. But even as the rich world talks glibly about ‘decarbonisation’ of its economy it has done precious little to reinvent its energy system and to wean itself from its fossil fuel addiction.
<p>The latest fuss about the 2°C global temperature target India apparently acceded to at the<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><a href="http://www.state.gov/g/oes/climate/mem/index.htm">Major Economies Forum in L’Aquil<span style="text-decoration: underline;">, </span>Italy</a>, is important to unravel.
