NEW DELHI, 6 AUG: A special commission will soon be set up to fix a minimum support price for forest produce sold by tribals to earn their livelihoods, the Centre announced today.

SHIMLA, 4 AUG: The Indian Railways propose to launch a “green initiative” in several trains in the country, if the recent experiment of introducing coaches “operating on solar based power system” i

NEW DELHI, 3 AUG: Reflecting the gravity of the situation, the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on drought will meet here again on Tuesday, 7 August, to discuss the drought situation in the coun

Leading scientist P Rama Rao (file photo) will recieve the Defence Research and Develop-ment Organisation’s (DRDO’s) lifetime achievement award for 2011 from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here tomo

Bhopal, 25 July: Madhya Pradesh government has decided to allot over 282 hectares of land to NTPC for setting up two thermal power projects in the state.

NEW DELHI, 22 JULY: Smokers in Delhi seem the least interested in kicking the killer habit.

NEW DELHI, 17 JULY: State governments should proactively facilitate land procurement for power projects to help meet the capacity-addition target of 88,000 MW over the next five years, Union power

NEW DELHI, 17 JULY: India and Russia today discussed methods to further their nuclear trade by setting up two additional units at the Koodankulam power project in Tamil Nadu, despite the fact that

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, 12 JULY: The Congress-led Kerala government has decided to legalise “reclamations” of wetland that occurred before 2005.

WASHINGTON, 12 JULY: US astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a fifth and tiniest moon yet orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto.

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