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 …
JAIPUR: The Jaipur City Transport Service Limited, established in the Rajasthan Capital recently under the Bus Rapid Transit System scheme, has bagged the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission Urban Mobility Award-2010 for new technological applications and innovations. State Transport Minister Braj Kishore Sharma received the award from Union …
Jaipur. Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in Jaipur has excelled in innovation, ahead of similar urban transport projects in the country. The project was awarded the Overall Excellence in Urban Transport at the Urban Mobility India 2010 Conference and Expo on Sunday. Urban development departments of 25 states participated in …
The newly-introduced Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) in Jaipur has become a national benchmark for management of mass transport systems in India. The Rajasthan government was awarded Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Urban Mobility Award-2010 by the Union government on Sunday. The award was selected among mass rapid …
Vadodara/Surat: Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) stormed the annual awards for implementation of the JnNURM scheme by winning three key awards. The city got awards for project implementation, improvement in water supply and waste water sector, and implementation of pro-poor reforms. Surat was the another city from the state to get …
The new generation of journalists have the formidable task to ensure that developmental efforts in the State are monitored so that issues like poverty can be addressed. Poverty still persists in India, and a concerted effort is needed to tackle it and its accompanying ills. This was mentioned by former …
The Punjab pavilion has been adjudged second for excellence in display at the ongoing India International Trade Fair in Delhi. Disclosing this here yesterday, an official spokesman said Secretary, Industries and Commerce SS Channy received the award on behalf of the state from Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit at an …
ARIYALUR: The State government would present two environmental awards to individuals and institutions working for the protection of ecological balance and environmental protection. In a press release here on Friday, Collector T. K. Ponnusamy said the awards, for the year 2010, would be given on the topics
Himachal Pradesh was awarded the best state award on Friday and was also adjudged as the best in investment climate, agriculture, governance, infrastructure and macro-economy. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal received the award from Vice-President Hamid Ansari at a function organised in New Delhi by a media group as 'State …
J&K; and Chandigarh have been selected by the Ministry of Environment and Forests for green honours -- the Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra awards. While J&K; has been selected under the category
Liu Xiaobo, a writer and human rights activist, was sentenced to prison for 11 years in 2009 for expressing his wish to see peaceful political change in China. Xiaobo was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A few days after that, Communist Party elders wrote a letter urging the government …
Indian Rajesh Shah of Bangalore has been honoured with a prestigious international environment award for his efforts to solve global safe drinking water and sanitation crises. Peer Water Exchange (PWX), invented in 2003 by Shah, received the prestigious 2010 Intel Environment Award from The Tech Museum in association with Santa …
Sri Lanka is one of the 30 countries that won this year's SEED awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development given by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Sri Lanka was recognized for its project "Rural Enterprise Network (REN)" which aims at linking small-scale farmers to input-output markets through improved product …
The Prime Minister gave away TWAS prizes and medals to scientists in various fields in recognition of their outstanding contributions. Over 300 scientists from 50 countries are taking part in the four-day annual event. The PM gave away the India Science prize of the Indian National Science Academy to statistician …
The 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded on Monday to Peter A Diamond, Dale T Mortensen and Christopher A Pissarides for their work on markets where buyers and sellers have difficulty finding each other, in particular in labour markets. For decades, the researchers have studied what happens …
Stockholm: An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing chemical methods widely used to make potential cancer drugs and other medicines, as well as slimmed-down computer screens. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were honored for their development four decades …
