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Electricity starved Haryana village moves to biomass gasification

early tests show that jojoba-fuelled engines spew fewer pollutants, run more quietly and for longer, and perform just as well as those that run on diesel. Jojoba is a desert shrub that can

Chhattisgarh decides to scrap a privatised water supply project. What happens next?

1973-74: Drought Prone Area Prog

The Center proposes to consolidate all watershed programmes under a single ministry. The aim of the new programme, called Hariyali, is to streamline work and avoid duplication. "I am totally in

One usually does not associate malaria with a desert environment. Common sense dictates that mosquitoes, that breed only in stagnant water, would give arid, water scarce spaces such as a desert a wide go by. But that is not the case in the Thar desert. Ra

Last fortnight I wrote about the different models of water privatisation. Questions continue to haunt me, but let me try and work towards some resolution. Firstly, there is the issue of pricing of

flawed trials: Yet another controversy has erupted over genetically modified (GM) crops

Bhoomipujan of the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project was held in presence of chief minister Narendra Modi. Speaking at the function, Modi said the project would bring the city a par with other

Toyota Motor Corp will spend US $34 million to finance the improvement of anti pollution controls on old, publicly owned buses in the US even though it did not manufacture them. The company has agreed to do this in order to settle a Clean Air Act lawsuit

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