Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The Harike wetland is back in focus. It is facing an ecological crisis. The pollution level has increased tremendously threatening the 62 species of freshwater fish, seven species of turtles and fauna.
A looming traffic jam of space missions to Mars has forced NASA to spend about $10 million on upgrading its facilities at the Tidbinbilla tracking station near Canberra.In early 2004 the red planet will be under surveillance by seven invaders from earth, including two rovers from the US National Aeronautics …
Chinese scientists have successfully cloned Venus' flytrap, a rare flower that can catch and eat flies and drive away mosquitoes. Mr Wang Rongsheng, general manager of the Shanghai-based high-tech bio-company said his company introduced Dionea Miscipula, or Venus' flytrap, last year and has cloned 20,000 pots of the flower so …
Some common failures in construction make buildings in hilly areas vulnerable to quakes. l Random rubble stone masonry bearing walls. These collapse easily as there is no interlocking to hold them together. l A large number of gable walls (the triangular part of a wall that supports sloped-roofs) collapse, partially …
The Gerusoppa hydro-electric project in Honnavar taluk, Uttara Kannada district, will be dedicated to the nation by Chief Minister S M Krishna on May 15. The Gerusoppa project, which is better known as the Sharavati Tailrace project, has a total capacity of 240 MW and comprises four units of 60 …
Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that humans share a single African ancestor. The ancestor-dubbed "Adam" rather than Eve, since the research was based on male genetic lineages-probably lived in the eastern part of the sub continent 100,000 years ago.
In a radical move to bring de-centralisation to the grass roots level of the administration, the Maharashtra government has decided to arm gram sabhas with sweeping executive powers and greater financial autonomy in keeping with the panchayat raj model of democracy. But for the five crore people of rural Maharashtra, …
The Madhya Pradesh has registered an unprecedented jump of 20 per cent in literacy level from 44 per cent in 1991 to 64 per cent in 2001 to catch up with the national average.
From Bangalore come a spirited attempt to bring computers to the gigabyte-less masses. A Simple Inexpensive Mobile Computer or a microcomputer or in short Simputer is the latest attempt to reach a kind of techno-humanist grail: a computer priced and designed for the billions of people who have yet to …
the Union ministry of health and family welfare has banned the manufacture and sale of eight drug combinations, as they have no therapeutic value or contain ingredients for which there are no justifications. Manufacturers have to restrict production of these eight combinations so that no stocks are available after December …
The literacy rate in the state has registered a sharp increase, with the women surpassing men. The literacy rate in the state has increased from 65.38 per cent in 1991 to 70 percent in 2001 as per the preliminary reports of the census.
The new system of decentralisation of power including panchayati raj and the concept of district government may have won accolades for Chief Minister Digvijay Singh at the international level, but his ministerial colleagues seem to be unhappy with some of his decisions including the concept of district governments.
You neighborhood inventor, finding simple solutions to local problems, will soon have a helping hand. The National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad signed a memorandum of understanding with the Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN). It aims at identifying innovations by farmers and local artisans, which can be anything from …
The meeting of the Ministers of Education from the South Asian countries, a follow-up to Dakar Framework for Action 2000, concluded in Kathmandu with a joint statement on Education for All (EFA) programme.
Fulfilling its long-standing promise to make the functioning of Government departments transparent, responsive and responsible and to ensure free flow of information, the Delhi Assembly on Monday passed the Delhi Right to Information Bill, 2001.
Delhi government's much talked about Right to Information Bill (RIB) might well end up getting stuck with the Centre, if the state sends the Bill to the latter for final clearance.
Women's literacy rate in Sikkim has jumped from 8.9 per cent in 1971 to 61.46 per cent in 2001, even though the state witnessed a decline in sex ratio, according to the provisional census data. This comprises 76.73 per cent men and 61.46 women.
Although in the last decade the state's population has gone up by 18.41 per cent, the growth rate has gone down around three per cent and Mumbai fares at the bottom of the table with an alarmingly low sex ratio of 774, there is good news --The literacy rate is …
It is celebration time for the Digvijay Singh government as the Census 2001 figures have put the stamp of authenticity on the success of its high profile literacy programme. As compared to a 44 per cent literacy rate in 1991, the state's literacy rate has gone up to 64 now, …
The Madhya Pradesh State Dairy Federation (MPCDF) is launching 'Madhya Dairy Pariyojna', a novel project for the women, which would not only be run by women but would be supervised by women officials too.
