India has achieved record surplus food production, yet there is no nutrition security for its one billion people -- Projections show India is moving towards negative growth in coarse grain

Earthquakes don't kill; badly built houses do. A look into houses in India that have withstood several earthquakes

Houses that hold on

Pherols have withstood the test of earthquakes for over 100 years. They are multi-storeyed structures and the main construction materials are wood and stone with mud mortar. Pherols were developed by

Assam type solution

January 26, 2001, 6:34 am. The earth shook violently in Gujarat, clocking somewhere between 6.9 and 7.7 on the Richter scale. Residential apartments, offices, multi-storeyed structures cracked,

Some common failures in construction make buildings in hilly areas vulnerable to quakes. l Random rubble stone masonry bearing walls. These collapse easily as there is no interlocking to hold them

--Bamboo possesses elasticity, high tensile strength and is light in weight. Bamboo houses suffer very little loss during a earthquake. If such houses fall during an earthquake, they can be

About 80 tropical cyclones (with wind speeds equal to or greater than 35 knots) form in the world’s waters every year. Of these about 6.5% develop in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. Since the frequency of cyclones in the Bay of Bengal is about 5 to 6 times the frequency of those in the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal's share comes out to be about 5.5%. The tropical cyclones forming in the Bay of Bengal hit the coast of India (particularly the states of Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal) every year, causing heavy loss of life and property.

In this paper the authors have estimated for 1990 and 1995 the inventory of greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O for India at a national and sub-regional district level. The district level estimates are important for improving the national inventories as well as for developing sound mitigation strategies at manageable smaller scales.