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Green tribunal notice on widening of highway passing by Kaziranga 27 Aug 2013 | 03:37 pm
Government plans to widen NH-37 in spite of frequent deaths of wild animals attempting to cross the road During rainy season, flooding in Kaziranga National Park forces the wild animals to move south...
Lok Sabha passes food Bill 27 Aug 2013 | 07:04 am
Food supplies minister K V Thomas assures foodgrain allocation to states would not be reduced Photo: Jyotsna Singh
Omkareshwar dam: SC issues contempt notice to Madhya Pradesh over resettlement of oustees 26 Aug 2013 | 10:07 pm
Madhya Pradesh government ordered to follow rehabilitation policy comprehensively Last year, people affected by the Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dams protested the raising of dam storage levels by st...
What states stand to gain from food security law 26 Aug 2013 | 09:39 pm
An estimate of the population that will benefit from the food programme The annual requirement of foodgrains for implementing the food security Bill is estimated at 61.43 million tonnes. The table be...
The evolution of the food Bill 26 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
The Bill, originally drafted by the National Advisory Council, saw several changes and got diluted over the past three years In 2009 when Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came to power ...
Who said what in Parliament on food Bill 26 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
Sonia Gandhi UPA chairperson
Where is POSCO headed? 26 Aug 2013 | 12:40 pm
Odisha government has completed land acquisition for plant site but proposed mining in Khandadhar hills might stir up another struggle A file photo from 2011 shows women and children holding ground i...
Cancer rises in the Northeast 26 Aug 2013 | 07:39 am
Report of Indian Council of Medical Research shows Aizawl district in Mizoram has the highest incidence of cancer
400,000 people petition parliament panel to withdraw BRAI Bill 24 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Deadline for public feedback on biotechnology Bill expires August 25 The petitions were handed over to chairperson of parliamentary standing committee on science and technology, T Subbarami Reddy (co...
Pro-GM farmers stage protest near Parliament 23 Aug 2013 | 11:58 am
Farmers' organisations demand rejection of technical experts committee report recommending indefinite ban on field trials of GM crops
