BIS finalises street food norms
Standard to ensure vendors follow hygienic practices and serve food safe for health
Private doctors strike work to protest proposed legislation
Supreme Court notice to Indian Medical Association on plea challenging strike
Another suspected poaching incident in Pench
Authorities fail to keep check
Green tribunal suspends POSCO’s clearance
The South Korean giant will now have to apply for a fresh environmental clearance
Custom duty waiver for CFLs in budget: Nothing to cheer about
Likely to make LEDs cheaper only by Rs 10 to Rs 12
Budget through the years
Climate change threat to food produce in India, says study
'Erratic rainfall and rising input costs forcing farmers to migrate'
Kathmandu runs out of gas, diesel and petrol
Nepal Oil Corporation runs up heavy debt
Punjab Pollution Control Board goes hi tech
To give clearance over Internet
Government proposes a regulator for public procurement
Legislation codifies rules for all government procurement and purchases
River diversion project in Nagpur stalled at the last moment
Chief minister refuses to attend bhoomi poojan following allegations of irregularities
Onion export ban lifted
Minimum export price fixed at US $475 a tonne. Will it profit farmers?
Bt Brinjal: NBA may prosecute Mahyco, collaborators
Mahyco claims innocence, alleges violation by Dharwad University
Report blames aquaculture activities for Olpad incident
Water had been gushing out from the ground since first week of June
Tribal governance, Salwa Judum and Maoists
Maoist insurgents killed Mahendra Karma, founder of the anti-Maoist Salwa Judum campaign, in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur district on Saturday. …
Activists demand compulsory licence for another life-saving cancer drug
Appellate board's order upholding Natco's CL for sorafenib tosylate may pave way for manufacture of generic version of other patented drugs
Centre reverses stand on governor's powers under Fifth Schedule
Assistant solicitor general's affidavit says the constitutional head of state has no discretionary powers over functioning of Tribes Advisory …
Forestland diversion for roads, railway lines made easy
MoEF waives requirement of obtaining gram sabha certificates for linear projects. Will it dilute forest rights of people?
SC orders immediate release of Cauvery water to save Tamil Nadu’s standing crops
State claims it has lost a third of its standing crops and that remaining crops on 600,000 ha need to be irrigated at once
Pre-dawn police crackdown on village at POSCO site
Move marks restart of land acquisition for steel plant; police say they were only protecting farmers who wanted to give land
Cauvery row: SC directs Karnataka to release 283 cumec water to Tamil Nadu
Asks Cauvery Monitoring Committee headed-by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to meet within two days and decide water sharing between the two states
Only 22 housing projects for poor completed under JNNURM, says CAG
Comptroller and Auditor General raps urban development and housing ministries for failing to bring about urban governance reforms
Where SAIL's profits come from
State-owned steel giant’s profits are increasingly from raw material subsidies, not real economic value addition
Indian laws adequate for ensuring biosafety, says MoEF special secretary
But they do not provide for liability and redress if damage occurs due t release of GMOs by biotech giants, point out civil society groups
NHRC raps Centre, Madhya Pradesh for insensitivity towards dam oustees
People affected by Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dams had staged jal satyagraha to demand rehabilitation rights