June 22: Electricity from chicken litter and cooking gas from kitchen waste. Sounds strange? That

June 22: The Union ministry of environment and forests has stepped up pressure on the AP government to expedite the inspection of its borders with Karnataka by taking the support of the Survey of India.

K.V. Kurmanath
Chinnakanjarla (Medak dist), June 22

Activists of Greenpeace, a global non-governmental organisation that takes up environmental issues, today barged into a Bayer Crop science field trial site here, protesting against herbicide-resistant rice trials.

G. Nagaraja

ELURU: The Andhra Pradesh government

June 21: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, on Sunday asked the APTransco chairman and managing director, Mr Sudhirth Bhattacharya to replace 3.36 lakh transformers and 1.65 lakh distribution transformers across the state in order to boost the power infrastructure in the state. If it is implemented, it would become the biggest capacity addition in the history of the power sector.

HYDERABAD: A week-long effort last month to conduct a census of tigers showed a slight increase in their population from 102 last year to 106 in 27 protected areas of the State, which are all sanctuaries.

Senior forest officials explained that the population could be higher if the entire land mass of the State was taken into account.

Though slowdown has hit exports from India resulting in stemming the SEZ rush, developers are still looking for approvals and seeking time to develop their projects.

In the Board of Approval meeting held today, headed by Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar, formal approval was given to IT Sez of Shyam Steel Industries, and Genome Valley Biotech Sez in Andhra Pradesh.

PWD Minister Durai Murugan on Friday expressed shock over the reported assurance given by Union Minister of State for Environment Jairam Ramesh to Andhra Pradesh government that permission would be given for constructing a dam across the Palar river within 15 days

Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy

HYDERABAD: Having decided in principle to scrap its agreement with the Maytas Infra-led consortium, the State government is exploring various options for launching work on the Metro Rail project in Hyderabad that has turned out to be a non-starter.