CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE THREAT THAT IT POSES TO HUMAN EXISTENCE IS A MAJOR CONCERN TODAY. EVEN THE YOUTH HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY TO SAVE PLANET EARTH R K PACHAURI

FROM EMPOWERING THE GIRL CHILD TO RECYCLING ITEMS DISCARDED BY URBAN SCHOOLS

Should private diesel cars be taxed more than petrol cars to neutralize the subsidy they get on retail fuel prices, originally kept low for benefiting commercial vehicle operations like public transport vehicles and goods carriers that have a direct bearing on inflation.

At a time when most automakers in the country are hiking prices, Honda Siel Cars India said it is cutting rates of sedans by up to Rs 5,000 with effect from Sunday on account of the reduction in central sales tax. "We have received notification from the government on the central sales tax cut from 3% to 2% announced in the Budget. Hence we are reducing the prices of our models City and Civic to pass the benefit to consumers,' a Honda Siel Cars India official said.

Over 250 rallyists from various citizens' networks, NGOs and RWAs took part in a pro-BRT march organised on Sunday on the threekm stretch between Khanpur cros- sing and Chirag Dilli. The participants shouted slogans, asking the government to implement and extend similar corridors, citing examples from a recent CSE report, which shows a rise in the number of cyclists and bus commuters after the project was introduced.

Government is believed to have decided to impose 15% export duty on iron ore, used for making steel, which has seen a 50% increase in prices since January, thereby fuelling inflation. The decision was taken at the meeting of the Committee of Secretaries (CoS) on May 30, a highly placed source said. The CoS has also decided to roll back export duty on steel, barring primary and semi-finished products, in return for the Rs 4,000 per tonne reduction in prices announced by them early last month.

Rio De Janeiro: Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining "lost' tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders.

infoholic Yup, I can dig into frozen ground as hard as concrete. The scoop has special blades and a powered "rasp' to scrape ice. Cool! Whoever thought a Nasa spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and internet? For users of Twitter, a web microblogging service, the Phoenix Mars lander has been sending pithy news "tweets' to the cellphones and computers of interested "followers.' As of Friday night, the Phoenix lander had 9,636 followers at Twitter. According to twitterholic.com, it ranks No. 30 among all Twitter feeds in the solar system.

In wake of the environmental damage caused by billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases produced each year, researchers at Colombia University in New York claim to have made a major breakthrough towards developing a machine that can

When was Everest discovered as the worlds highest mountain? In 1847, Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor general of India, found a peak in the eastern end of the Himalayas which was higher than Kangchenjunga