The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012 The Bill will replace the existing Land Acquisition Act, 1894. State still holds crucial
Science 2.0 is here as CSIR resorts to open source drug research for TB Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi March 1, 2009, 0:23 IST A global net-based project for finding a new TB drug sets the pace for research into poor man's diseases that don't attract big money.
The climate change conference in Poznan, which ended last week, would be remembered for little else but the activation of the Adaptation Fund a year after it was set up. Developing countries, including India to some extent, can now send proposals to the Fund for projects to safeguard vulnerable communities and areas against impacts of climate change and global warming.
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Even as the developed nations are moving at a snail
A clinic in a village makes a difference even if the village happens to be Sakhipur in Greater Noida,within a stone's throw of New Delhi. The clinic, started by LG Electronics, opens in the morning. Patients come from 25 villages. One of them says: "The sarkari dispensary has been here for two years." The villagers are yet to realise that the clinic is run by a private company. A senior official of the company was shocked to know that the villagers don't know that LG runs the clinic. The villagers obviously cannot read the signboards.
Use of algae and methanol for rapid carbon recycling is gaining popularity among power producers. As glaciers and rivers threaten to disappear, Indian coal-based power plants may have to look at algae and methanol for rapid carbon recycling.
