Co Ties Up Fuel Linkages, Plans JV With Kolkata Co For Project

RAIPUR : Faced with a shortage of doctors in rural and Naxalite areas, the Chhattisgarh Government has formulated an action plan to provide special allowances, insurance cover and other perks to medical professionals so as to motivate them to serve in remote villages.

U. SANKAR RICH LANDS POOR PEOPLE

A company that has 1,600 farmers' families as shareholders - report of Savvy Soumya Mishra from Raipur This summer if you use a prickly heat powder manufactured by Emami think of Agricon Agropreneurs Limited. The Raipur-based public limited company supplies mentha, a common ingredient in many beauty products, to the cosmetic major. Set up two years ago, Agricon has given farmers much-needed clout in their dealings with cosmetic companies.

An Indian database has been created by profiling the population on the basis of changes in genes with disease linkages. THE first results from the project of the Indian Genome Variation Consortium (IGVC) have clearly demonstrated (Frontline, June 6) that even as the Indian population exhibits a genetic diversity unmatched anywhere in the world, there are within it pockets of homogeneous ethnic groups that have remained relatively genetically unadmixed. (The IGVC's multi-institutional project was set up to evolve a disease-linked genetic map of India.)

Sunita Narain India thrives on a cheap and dirty industrialisation model.