Punjab is taking Canadian assistance to set up a biotechnology park at a cost of Rs 100 crore. The park has been conceived to promote biotech-based enterprises. It is aiming at capturing a number of

Close on the heels of the findings in Pakistan that the veterinary drug diclofenac was causing mass vulture deaths, a pair of British researchers using simulation models have demonstrated that the

The Himachal Pradesh State Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board has issued notices to 38 limestone mines of Sirmaur district which were operating

In a rejoindet to the charges made against the Forest Hill Golf Club and Resport situated in Karoran village, the owners have pointed out that the Punjab Government has singled out the Club and has

A scheme has been formulated by NABARD in consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India and selct banks for providing credit assistance to agriculture graduates by the banks for

State Industries Minister Ram Lal Thakur, who heard public grievances at the mini secretariat, Dharamsal, expressed his concern over the reckless disregard being shown by the owners of stone-crushers

With the objective of strengthening laws and rules, the Himachal Pradesh Housing Board plans to bring out new

Besides giving priority to afforestation on degraded land on massive scale, the Himachal government is in the process of putting together a new forest policy to save and conserve this valuable

The population of the State is pegged at 6,077,900, according to the Census 2001 figures released by the Himachal Pradesh Directorate of Census Operations. While there are 3,087,940 males in the

For the past 24 years, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) did not the clear the 1,000 MW Bodhghat hydel project in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. Now, it took less than a month for