Bhopal: Four infants aged below two years died and 17 children fell ill after they were administered an anti-measles and tetanus vaccine at Anganwadi centres in Damoh town, in Madhya Pradesh.

Van Vihar National Park is all set to add yet another feather in its cap by obtaining ISO 9001-2008 certification.

The park had applied for the Quality in Management Service (QMS) in August 2009. The team of experts visited the park for inspecting facilities and park management on Wednesday.

Van Vihar National Park is all set to add yet another feather in its cap by obtaining ISO 9001-2008 certification.

The park had applied for the Quality in Management Service (QMS) in August 2009. The team of experts visited the park for inspecting facilities and park management on Wednesday.

Farmers

Solid waste management is a problem related to common man. Solid waste is that substance which we throw away considering it useless. By selecting this waste and recycling it and by its management we can participate in stopping climatic change. This was stated by Abhilasha Dubey in the seminar organised under national environment awareness campaign.

Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology (IICPT), under Union Ministry of Food Processing, and Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE), Bhopal is jointly organising a two-day national level seminar on "food security and economic prosperity through processing and preservation of foods" from March 4 at the premises of CIAE, Nabibagh.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced the establishment of Climate Change Research Centre in the Madhya Pradesh Council for Science and Technology (MPCST) on Monday. He said that this centre would collect data related to the climate change in rich State referring to the forest property, biotechnology and agricultural climate zone.

After successfully manufacturing a 200 litre solar water heater to promote use of green energy, the Central Jail prisoners are now trying their hands at preparing a 2,000 litre capacity solar water heater to meet the needs of Central Jail here, officials said.

Despite the recent Supreme Court directive to dispose of the hazardous waste lying in the now-defunct Union Carbide Plant by putting it through an incinerator in Dhar district of the State, the trial runs for waste disposal flout environmental norms, activists claim.

The toxic waste is to be incinerated at the Common Transport Storage and Disposal Facility (CTSDF) at Pitampura in Dhar.

'Earth is not our planet, our home' was one o the wonderful thought conveyed during the fifth and final technical session on the third day today of the International Conference on Land, Water Resources, Bio-diversity and Climate Change' organised at the Bhopal School of Social Sciences. The day witnessed an overwhelming response from the participants from different institutions.