The power situation in the Indian cities is extremely distressing Brace yourself to sweat it out in the torrid summer in the coming weeks on account of load shedding, as states are switching off power supply to overcome the shortage of power. And Delhiites are already staying sleepless at nights because of the irritating noise of generators.
Builders are jumping on to the SEZ bandwagon, distorting priorities Whatever their view on the benefits of Special Economic Zones (sez), most observers agree that the question of land acquisition is problematic. Land required for giant public works such as dams or for large industrial projects was not a contentious matter for several decades.
Plans to increase ethanol content in gasoline face delay due to procurement problems
An agitational approach to river disputes only prolongs them
For the Raje government, the floods are a testing time but more could have been done to minimise the losses
The high cost of embryo transfer (et) technology is a major constraint in its wider application in India, say a galaxy of experts working in the field of cattle development. The need of the hour, says Dr. Narayan G. Hegde, president of the Pune-based baif Development Research Foundation, is to develop genetically superior bulls so that small and marginal farmers all over the country can benefit.
Like any fledgling business, the carbon credit market too has teething troubles. But that should not stop it from growing
If the Indian paper industry has to grow exponentially, it must upgrade the quality of its product with one simple input: the increased use of pcc or precipitated calcium carbonate, which is found in abundance in Sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh or continue to face the threat of imported high grade paper at a high cost. This is the contention of a Florida-based scientist Dr.
Indian agriculture is coming free of the traditional mandis, with the spread of credit to farmers, involvement of the corporate sector and futures commodity exchanges
In the presence of Atomic Energy Commission (aec) chairman Anil Kakodkar and India's distinguished nuclear scientists and personnel who had made this possible, Unit 3 of the 540 mw Tarapur Atomic Power Station (taps) attained criticality (nuclear parlance for an atomic plant becoming operational), with the start of a self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction in the reactor core.
