Continuing its election eve showering of sops, the Congress Government in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday launched

Warning of a social unrest over the prevailing water crisis in the country, the Supreme Court has suggested the Government study alternate modes of conserving water and devise strategies to create buffer stock of drinking water on a

Jalimudi village in East Godavari district will get 1,000 litres of potable water every day, produced from air. The water station, the first of its kind set up in any village in India, has begun trial runs.

SIVAGANGA: Sivaganga district has been selected as number one in the country in implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Scheme.

While the second position has gone to Chithoor district in Andhra Pradesh, Ganjam district in Orissa has been selected for the third position.

28 Jan 2009, 0002 hrs IST, Rajeev Deshpande, TNN

NEW DELHI: Concerned over reports of water at Patancheru in Medak near Hyderabad containing drug residues that are as high as 150 times the levels detected in US, PMO has asked for testing of samples and a report on the composition of the pharmaceutical cocktail within a week.

Patancheru (Medak, AP): Patancheru became a hub for largely unregulated chemical and drug factories in the 1980s, creating what is described locally as an

PATANCHERU: When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they Drug-polluted stream in Andhra Pradesh Drug waste creates highest disaster zone in Andhra Pradesh were shocked. Powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.