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 …
The state government will give cash rewards to encourage the eco-clubs to take up various environment-related activities. This was stated by principal secretary, science and technology, Harinder Hira, while inaugurating a three-day workshop for master trainers under the national green corps programme, which commenced here today. She said the top …
The National Water Award and the Bhoomijal Samvardhan Puraskar-2007 were awarded by the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India in September 2007 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The award is given to those who have achieved significant success in rain-water harvesting over all zones of India.
The 10th Venu Menon National Animal Award's Ceremony was recently held here. Kapila Vatsyayan, Member of Parliament; Sathya Saran, renowned journalist and editor, DNA; MK Ranjitsinh, chairman Wildlife Trust of India; KB Menon, chairman, Venu Menon Animal Allies Foundation graced the occasion and conferred awards on six individuals, two organisations …
For making a difference to the lives of animals by kindness, courage The 10th Venu Menon National Animal Awards were presented to six individuals, two organisations and one community at a function here on Tuesday for making a difference to the lives of animals by acts of kindness and extraordinary …
This article traces how Singapore-with no natural aquifers or groundwater-goes from having inadequate supplies to winning awards for exemplary water management.
The struggle against mining giants in Orissa got a shot in the arm after Mukta Jhodia, a campaigner against the Hindalco-led Utkal Alumina's bauxite mining project in Kashipur won the first Chingari Award for Women Fighting Corporate Crime. The award was instituted by Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, campaigners …
>> Discovery Communications is partnering US video games publisher Activision Inc to make animal-themed games, Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav said. Activision will make games with the titles tied to Discovery's Animal Planet channel. >> A TV expos
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc), headed by R K Pachauri, and the former us vice-president, Al Gore. Their achievement, said the Nobel Committee in Oslo, is international action on climate change before it gets out of mankind's control. The …
interestingly, the unconventional choice of peaceniks, Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc), by the Nobel committee has not created a public outcry. In fact, it has been lauded in all quarters, barring the
>> South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against the country service provider Telkom's "Do Broadband' television and Internet-based advertising campaign in which the agency promises consumers that they can do a variety of Internet activities using a one-gigabyte broadband package. "We found the advert to be misleading as …
Vatavaran, India's only competitive environment and wildlife film festival, was held between September 12 and 16 in Delhi. Wild Dog Diaries by S Krupakar and Senani Hegde bagged the Best of the Festival award. Earth Calling Episode Coorg by Rita Banerjee and Shilpi Sharma won the Delhi chief minister's award …
On September 11, Hivre Bazar panchayat in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district won the first National Water Award for community-led water conservation. POPATRAO PAWAR,sarpanch of the village, talks to SUPRIYA SINGH On the village water budget: After taking up watershed development works in the village, we realised that one of the three …
Two Indian film-makers who had braved forest brigand Veerappan to shoot a film on wild dogs were feted at a recent Japanese festival. Wild Dog Diaries, made by the Mysore-based filmmaker-photographer duo S Krupakar and Senani Hegde, has bagged the Best of the Festival Grand Award 2007 at the Japanese …
>> Ullas Karanth, the Indian wildlife biologist, best known for his prolific research and writing on tigers, has been given the prestigious J Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership for 2007
>> Disney Studio has pledged to remove smoking from its family-oriented films. The media giant's chief executive Robert A Iger said depictions of smoking will be "discouraged' in films aimed at adults released under its Touchstone and Miramax banners. Iger made the promise in a letter to US congressman Edward …
Renewable energy pioneers from Bangladesh, China, India, Laos and Tanzania were among the winners of this year's Ashden Awards for Sustainable Development. Kerala-based ngo Biotech was adjudged the winner in the Food Security category. It bagged the 30,000 pounds (us $60,000) prize for developing biogas plants that use food waste …
One of the largest aluminium producers in the country with a market share of more than 30 per cent, Balco is poised to play a significant role in the context of globalisation. The company has achieved a dramatic surge in productivity and profit within a short span of five years …
robert goodland, an environmental scientist, has come out with a report on Canadian mining giant Alcan's involvement with the Utkal Alumina and Bauxite Project in Kashipur, Orissa. The report reveals series of human rights abuses on adivasis protesting the project. Alcan has now withdrawn from the project. In an interview …
gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on March 29, 2007, announced a Rs 13-crore scheme for the state's urban poor. The programme, called Garib Samriddhi Scheme, envisages, among other things, setting up 175,000 private toilets and 5,000 pay-and-use-toilets in slums over the next five years. It also plans to construct 250,000 …
