UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
Gharaunda (Karnal): Israeli Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Orit Noked today offered agricultural technologies to India and showered praise on Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for steps taken for betterment of farmers. She ,however, did not commit on setting up a research and development centre for agriculture, horticulture and …
The Israeli Government has offered its agricultural technologies for India, Israeli Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Orit Noked said here on Monday. Talking to media persons after her meeting with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at the Centre of Excellence for Vegetables at Gharaunda in Karnal district, she described
Inspired by his recent visit to Israel, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has urged the people of his state to make optimum use of water. Hooda, who was in the city to take part in a private function, termed his Israel visit as successful and said Israelis have overcome …
Chandigarh Haryana and Israel agreed to constitute working groups to strengthen agricultural cooperation. Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who held a meeting with MK minister of agriculture and rural development of Israel Orit Noked in Tel Aviv, took initiatives on the suggestion from Noked. Roshan Lal, state financial commissioner …
IMAGINE a hill station without pines. Worse, Canada sans the maple tree. This could be a reality. Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel claim many tree species that depend on the wind to disperse their seeds like pines and maple might become extinct due to climate change. …
ANTIOXIDANTS are a part of health food products like Kellogg’s cornflakes, Protinex and Horlicks. But claims of these being healthy and nutritious are likely to fall flat as antioxidants have been found to have adverse health reactions. A research has shown that antioxidants like vitamins C and E could be …
London: Energy saving light bulbscould resultin higher breast cancer ratesif used late at night. Abraham Haim, professor of biology at Haifa University in Israel, said that the bluer light that compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) emitted, closely mimicked daylight. Buttheflip sideisitdisrupted the body's production of the hormone melatonin more than olderstyle …
An Indo-Israel project for growing off-season vegetables will be inaugurated at Gharaunda tomorrow. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Haryana Chief Minister BS Hooda and Israel
Sunny Sebastian NEW VISTAS: Israeli Ambassador to India Mark Sofer harvesting cucumber at the new Indo-Israeli joint agricultural farm near Bassi in Jaipur district of Rajasthan on Thursday to mark the launch of the centre of excellence in agriculture. Also seen is Rajasthan Chief Secretary S. Ahmed. BASSI (JAIPUR): Israeli …
A Canadair plane sprays water over the Carmel Forest near Haifa on Friday. HAIFA (Israel): European aircraft dumped tonnes of water over flames shooting from tall trees on Friday in northern Israel as firefighters struggled for a second day to contain the country's worst-ever forest fire, which has killed 41 …
Godrej Agrovet Ltd, the agri-business arm of leading conglomerate Godrej Ltd, has planned to enter the dairy farming business. It is in talks with at least two leading Israeli dairy farm technology providers. While Godrej Agrovet did not respond to an email query from Business Standard, representatives of the Israeli …
The Indo-Israel Centre for Excellence in Vegetables at Gharaunda, near Karnal, the first of its kind in the country, will be inaugurated on December 6. The centre demonstrates advanced farm technologies of Israel to maximise cultivation and achieve quality production of vegetables. The state
BIOLOGISTS have just woken up to the presence of chemicals that can dictate the egg-laying preferences of a mosquito. A whiff of the chemical can make a gravid insect avoid a water pool. Is this the malaria solution the world is waiting for? A team of ecologists at University of …
Israeli start-up firm Tawkon (pronounced talk-on) has developed a software to measure mobile phone handset radiation, to help users reduce exposure to emissions without giving up their phones. Tawkon
New Delhi: Keen to help India with its highly developed technologies in the farm sector, Israel will soon set up two centres of excellence in the field of floriculture and horticulture in Haryana to provide expertise to farmers. These centres which would provide important lessons to growers of Punjab, Delhi, …
SHIMLA: The Himachal Government would send a group of progressive farmers and apple growers to Israel next month to learn the latest farming techniques, the State Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said here on Sunday after his meeting with Agriculture Councillor in Embassy of Israel, Dr. Avri Bar Zur. Mr …
US $1 TRILLION WORTH OF MINERALS Afghanistan is suddenly richThe Pentagon recently announced that Afghanistan is sitting on mineral wealth worth US $1 trillion—about 1,000 times the government’s annual revenue. The untapped mineral deposits, including iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium, a key raw material for laptop, cell phone and …
Swarleen Kaur Chandigarh: Farmers in Haryana will soon have the benefit of the most modern agricultural practices prevalent in Israel as the Indo-Israel Centre for Excellence in Vegetables near Gharaunda in Karnal, and the Indo-Israel Centre for Excellence in Fruits at Mangiana near Sirsa are in their final stages of …
