Jaipur: State’s health department is among five in South-East Asia region of WHO to receive award for its accomplishment in the area of tobacco control. It is the only government body in the country which will be awarded for its tobacco free initiatives (TFIs) on the World Tobacco Day (May …
Prof. Tapas Kumar Kundu of Bangalore-based Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research has won the G. D. Birla Award for his contributions in the field of bio-chemistry. The award, instituted by the K. K. Birla Foundation to accord recognition to high-calibre scientific research undertaken by Indian scientists below the …
IMPHAL, Feb 7 – Manipur- based Centre for Research on Environmental Development (CRED), an NGO, has been awarded the Green Globe Foundation award 2012 for outstanding contribution at the grass root level critical issues of environment degradation besides generating mass awareness on pollution related issues. The award was handed over …
Bhubaneswar: The initiative of the Odisha government in IT sector yielded result as the Centre has selected the state for the award under Best Government Portal category. Project Integrated Treasury Management System (iOTMS) of the Directorate of Treasuries & Inspection of finance department) has won the gold under the excellence …
The State Government’s initiative in IT sector yielded result as the Union Government has recognised its superlative works towards e-governance and as a token of this recognition, has announced to bestow the State with the National e-governance Award at the 15th National Conference on e-Governance in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on February …
Madhya Pradesh Forest department has been bestowed with the international Green Globe Foundation Award for outstanding achievement in environment sector by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Vizcraft International. The award was given away during Delhi Sustainable Development Summit-2012 at New Delhi. The …
Madhya Pradesh Forest Department has been honoured with the International Green Globe Foundation Award for outstanding achievement in environment sector, official sources said today. The award was jointly given by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Vizcraft International, they said. The award was …
Shillong, Jan. 16: The Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientist Award 2011-12 was conferred on a Shillong scholar by former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Jeremy Dkhar, a PhD in botany from the North Eastern Hill University (Nehu) received the award on January 4 during the 99th Indian Science Congress held …
Dr. Ashok Khosla OBE, one of the world’s leading experts on the environment and sustainable development, has been awarded the 2011 WWF Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal.
Volkswagen AG's new assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the first auto plant to receive the top environmental award from the U.S. Green Building Council, the company said on Thursday. Frank Fischer, chief executive and chairman of Volkswagen Chattanooga, said that being green saves VW money on energy and water …
Moser Baer Solar Ltd (MBSL), a subsidiary of Moser Baer India Ltd, has been awarded ‘Green Leaf' mark by Intertek AB Semco, Germany, for its max series ‘lead free' solar photovoltaic modules. According to a company statement, Intertek's Green Leaf mark certifies that the product has been independently tested and …
An award-winning pioneering physicist is setting up a local research centre with the aim of producing the next Nobel laureate from India. Will he succeed? The scientific community is not excited and the debate extends to the quality of research at India’s science institutions, including the IITs. Ahona Ghosh researches …
For his paper on ‘dynamics of dark matter’, Jamia Millia Islamia scientist Mohammad Sami will share a citation given by the Nobel Prize committee for the year 2011. Sami co-authored the paper with Edmund J Copeland and Shinji Tsujikawa and did the research work on the paper while he was …
GUWAHATI, Nov 1 – From being a nature club based in Guwahati to a stage where its activities cover Eastern India and foreign countries, it has been a long journey. And yesterday, the conservation group Aaranyak’s work earned a valued national recognition. Aaranyak, the society for biodiversity conservation in NE …
The Centre will award gram panchayats that have excelled in implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to encourage rural bodies to perform better. The Centre has asked Jharkhand to pick a specific gram panchayat, which implemented the flagship rural job scheme well, at each of its …
Developed Statistical Tools To Unravel Effect Of Monetary Policy On Economy Catherine Rampell: The Nobel prize in economic science was awarded on Monday to Thomas J Sargent at New York University and Christopher A Sims at Princeton University for their research looking at the cause-and-effect relationship between economic policy and …
The Nobel in economic science was awarded on Monday to Thomas J. Sargent of New York University and Christopher A. Sims of Princeton University for their research on the cause and effect of government policies on the broader economy, a major concern of countries still struggling to address the aftermath …
An Israeli scientist who suffered years of ridicule and even lost a research post for claiming to have found an entirely new class of solid material was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals. Three decades after Dan Shechtman looked with an electron microscope …
Three U.S.-born researchers shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, a startling result that overturned prevailing theories and sparked new questions for cosmology. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half the prize of 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) …
Three scientists who unlocked secrets of the body’s immune system, opening doors to new vaccines and cancer treatments, won the 2011 Nobel prize for medicine today. American Bruce Beutler and French biologist Jules Hoffmann, who studied the first stages of immune responses to attack, share the $1.5 million award with …
After getting the Prime Minister’s Award on successful implementation of the ban on polythene carry bags and sustaining its polythene-free drive for more than two years, Himachal Pradesh on Sunday extended the ban to all disposable plastic cups, glasses, plates and drinking water bottles. The business and traders’ community appeared …
