1978: Fomento buys land in Taleigaon village. Requests for adjacent land parcels 1980: State issues notification to acquire land in Taleigaon village and hands over the land including land parcel
Mosquitoes are getting better at evading pest control for long mosquitoes have been resisting pest control. They are only getting better at it. From 1977 to 1997, India spent more than a quarter of its health budget on malaria control. Yet it remains a formidable public health challenge in the country. A Nigeria-based study by scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
They travelled from China to Turkey and then to Siberia, where they might have resettled TEN thousand years ago, the tiger reigned over Eurasia from the Sunda Islands of Indonesia to India to eastern Turkey and up north into Siberia. Environmental changes and human influence drove some of its subspecies
Earthquake study centres to be linked for integrated analysis THE Chinese claim to predict earthquakes by observing animal behaviour and phenomenon such as sudden disappearance of water from lakes and wells. Scientists around the world have tried to do the same by studying parameters like changes in seismic activity and electromagnetic radiations and checking water bodies for increase in
Court ban may not solve biomedical waste problem NEW hospitals, clinics and healthcare facilities will not be sanctioned in Mumbai, for the time being. This follows a ban imposed by the Bombay High Court, on February 26. The court passed the order on a public interest petition after the city administration repeatedly failed to comply with earlier court directions on managing the city
MoEF penalized for not appointing appellate authority It is the forum for redressing grievances of people affected by environmental clearances, given by the government, to dams, infrastructure projects, mines and industrial activities. But a visit to the office of the National Environment Appellate Authority (neaa) at Bhikaji Cama Place, Delhi, would make one think one got the address
Floods in India to be avoided using fuzzy logic IF A washing machine can figure out how dirty the laundry is, then it can calculate how long it should wash, how much detergent to add and how much water is needed. This is called the fuzzy logic technology and it works on a simple
