The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
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India, U.S. sign pact on clean technologies
India and the United States signed an agreement on Monday to establish a virtual centre to promote research, development and deployment in the area of clean energy technologies. Under the pact, the two countries would each contribute $5 million every year for supporting collaborative R&D projects involving academics and private sectors of both nations. Valid for 10 years The pact will in
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Need of the hour is dynamic regulator
INDIA needs a dynamic regulatory framework to augment growth in the power sector and address the perennial energy deficit in India, said top executives of the country
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CM Mayawati would inaugurate projects worth Rs 4000 crore
Chief Minister Mayawati would inaugurate projects worth Rs 4000 crore on Saturday when she would turn 55 despite Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leadership's appeal to party workers for a simple celebration of her birthday. The people of the state would get 250 new power sub-stations, 22 power distribution centres, road over-bridges, rail overhead bridge and Sewage Treatment Plants as Chief Minister
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Lavasa at night reveals two faces of development
A visit to the Lavasa Lake City project at night presents a disturbing sight, reflecting on the gross neglect of rural areas by the Maharashtra government. While the lake city is all lit up and basks in the glow of high-powered lights, seven villages surrounding the proposed township suffer silently in darkness. In existence well before the Lavasa project was even conceived, the villages of
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New initiative for development and deployment of improved cookstoves: recommended action plan
<p>A large percentage of world’s population continues to depend on biomass for their cooking needs. The cooking devices used by majority of them have very poor thermal efficiency and serious health impacts due to unclean combustion.
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Nandigram and CPI M 's insensitivity to rural sector
the massacre at Nandigram came as a shock to most. In retrospect, though, it needn't have. cpi(m)'s unrelenting drive to industrialise and urbanise West Bengal has had the makings of a disaster for
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The Future is Now
In 1992, the world moved several steps towards globalisation. But little attention was paid to the sharp economic, social and cultural divides. The rich world, troubled by recession, did not show much courage in dealing with them as it, too, began to feel
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Developing diversity
Isn t a good fillip to growth also cultural in nature?
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Testimonies from Nandigram
On March 14, 2006, about 3,000 police personnel forced their way into West Bengal's Nandigram block, injuring and killing many villagers. Villages in the block, in East Midnapur district, have been
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A question of leadership
The issue of leadership and management of R&D institutions proves to be a stumbling block in making such bodies more productive.