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KOLKATA, 21 MARCH: Incidents of nuclear accidents are frequent across the world but the governments suppress the news and fabricate facts when it comes to the extent of causing damage, said the former director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Dr Manoj Pal, at a press meet organised by Paramanu Bidyut Birodhi Prachaar Andolan Manch at the Press Club today.

The conference was organised t

Agartala, March 17: The Tripura Government has embarked upon numerous socio-cultural and economic programmes to protect the dwindling and endangered tribes of the State, a minister said here on Wednesday.

KOLKATA: The poor aged people, residing in 91 blocks across the districts of West Bengal, could not be brought under the state government's scheme to provide cooked food to them due to various reasons, including lack of initiative from panchayat authorities, Mr Anisur Rahman, state panchayat and rural development minister, told the Assembly today.

He was answering a question raised by DSP MLA M

If there is no proper planning in view of pressure of population, traffic, need of water and other basic things in the future, the citizens of Delhi will not get an adequate place to live in.

It will be difficult to move on roads as 1,000 new cars add everyday to the existing number of vehicles. As far as water is concerned, the level has already gone to hundreds of feet down to the earth.

Several tribals have moved out of Nagarhole National Park, accepting the govt

New Delhi: The Orissa government will have an uphill task assuring Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh that it has adhered to the Forest Rights Act in handing over forest land to the Posco Integrated Steel Plant.

The environment ministry

Seeking cooperation from the locals for establishment of the Rs 52,000 crore Posco project near Paradip, the State Government on Wednesday said only 613 families would be displaced because of the mega steel plant.

While the number of families facing displacement due to the project was initially put at 803, it came down to 613 after the State Government decided not to acquire private land at Dhi

With political parties across the spectrum asking the government to conduct a socio-economic survey of different communities, the government is considering clubbing the below poverty line (BPL) survey with the caste census.

A drive through Tillenkeri panchayat in Kannur district in Kerala, which has hundreds of acres of multi-crop farms, is a delight for the eyes. Drive a few hundred kilometers further south-east, and the scene is repeated in Vattavada in the hilly Idukki district.

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