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 …
Israel has approved the construction of the first rail link between its Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts, offering a new Asia-Europe trade route to compete with the Suez Canal, a project in which India is also said to have evinced interest. The so called proposal for Red-Med train link was …
Firefighters are making progress against a major blaze in one of Chile`s most spectacular national parks, the government said on Sunday, and the Israeli tourist accused of setting the fire denied guilt. Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter announced that light rain and diminished winds had helped emergency workers control three of …
Israel's national water company signed a financing agreement to build a desalination plant, which officials said could allow drought-ridden Israel to export water to its neighbors upon completion in 2013. Israel's ADL, a subsidiary of state-owned Mekorot, will build and operate the plant in the coastal city of Ashdod for …
They thought it had croaked. But missing for a half-century and listed as extinct in 1996, the Hula painted frog has been spotted again in northern Israel, its only known habitat. "The species now has another chance to survive," Israel's Nature and Parks Authority said on Thursday, reporting that one …
SHILLONG: Israeli experts will help Meghalaya to improve fish farming in the northeastern state, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has said. Launching an awareness campaign about a state aquaculture mission, Sangma said late Thursday: “Experts from Israel have been invited to study and suggest measures to further improve fish farming by …
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake killed seven people in eastern Turkey late Wednesday, less than three weeks after a massive quake killed more than 600 in the same area, a government disaster management centre said. Twenty-three people were found alive from the wreckage and seven lost their lives during the quake, …
What began as a mere graduation project for Meidad Marzan, a student at Bezalel Academy of Art in Jersualem, now aims to make solar panels active participants in the architectural sphere, instead of being mere passive radiation collectors. Sapna Gopal delves into how this could alter the concept of lighting …
In 1999, the Israeli government initiated a long-term, large scale SWRO (Sea Water Reverse Osmosis) desalination program. The program is designed to provide to the growing demands on Israel's scarce water resources, and to mitigate the drought conditions that have characterized most years since the mid 1990s.
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 …
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that the deadly bird flu, which first appeared in 2003, is rearing its head again in Asia and other countries. The organisation has said that there are signs of a mutant strain of H5NI spreading and urged heightened readiness and surveillance against …
Balls of ground chickpeas tossed into vats of sizzling oil and served with pickles and salads inside a pitta bread is a standard fast food across much of West Asia. But the ubiquitous, family owned falafel street stalls and cafes in Israel faced a challenge earlier this year when McDonald’s …
Israel said on Monday it was building a 1.5 billion shekel ($423 million) desalination plant, which upon completion in 2013, will join four other plants in providing the country with three-quarters of its drinking water. The government signed with Mekorot, the national water company, to build and operate the reverse …
Saboteurs blew up a pipeline carrying natural gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan on Monday, forcing the line to shut down, Egyptian security sources said. The explosion took place in the early morning at a station in the northern Sinai Peninsula at Bir Abd, 37 miles east of the …
India's economic success has been remarkable; India's agricultural success will follow. Rural India still needs nurturing, not necessarily by just extra funding, but with vision and leadership addressing issues, with down to earth, workable solutions.
All India Mango Exhibition begins in Krishnagiri KRISHNAGIRI: Farmers in the district will be trained in Israel techniques to get high yield in mango cultivation, said C.N. Maheshwaran, District Collector, here on Wednesday. In the absence of Agriculture Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan and Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development K.P. …
JAIPUR: Continuous depletion of ground water in the state has become a cause for concern and people's help is needed to conserve water. This was the crux of the discussion organised by the ground water department on Wednesday. Strategies to meet the water crisis were also discussed at the workshop. …
A Memorandum of Understanding for agricultural cooperation was signed between Israel and Sri Lanka yesterday at Taj Samudra Hotel, Colombo. The MoU was signed by Sri Lankan Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane and Israel Agriculture Minister Orit Noked . The two countries agreed to cooperate to achieve national and international …
AHMEDABAD: Chief minister Narendra Modi told visiting Israel consul general Orna Sagiv on Wednesday that farmers in Gujarat were eager to adapt new technology in farming. "If business houses of Israel involved with agriculture arrange an agro fair in Gujarat, the state government will give full support to them," Modi …
