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Pioneer (New Delhi)

• State airs grievances over share of Narmada Water

  Madhya Pradesh has registered its opposition with Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal for neglecting interest of the State in benefits from Narmada river water share among partner States. Madhya Pradesh

  • 19/07/2019

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Madhya Pradesh
    • Narmada
    • Reservoirs
    • Water Resources

• Business with butterflies

  The Indian butterfly trade has proliferated into a thriving business of $@00 million. Smugglers in the Northeast, which is home to more than half of the country's 1,400 species of butterflies,

  • 11/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Wildlife

• MCD nets mosquito 'breeders'

  Dr. K N Tiwari, Director Health Services-cum-Municipal Health Officer, said that the health department has prosecuted caretakers of a number of buildings for creating 'mosquitogenic' conditions and

  • 07/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Bid to save tribal land

  Worried over the increasing incidence of land-related violence in tribal-dominated districts in Orissa, has stepped up efforts to curb the trend of tribal land alienation. Simultaneously, the drive

  • 08/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Land

• Orissa fails to protect forests

  The Wildlife Society of Orissa has urged the State to take immediate steps to remove the encroachments from forests and wildlife sanctuaries in keeping with the Environment Ministry directive, issued

  • 08/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Forests

• 'Bhopal tragedy worse than WTC'

  It is ironic that the Indian media is going overboard to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy in New York but has forgotten all about the one that took place in our own backyard. How many

  • 12/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Koraput story: bare hills, flash floods

  The hills that zig-zag across Orissa's Koraput district have lost much of its cover due to slash-and-burn technique (podu in local parlance) of cultivation practiced by tribal communities in the

  • 13/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Greenwash?

  The Kodaikanal mercury dumping case is back in the spotlight, with the Indian People's Tribunal (IPT) holding a public hearing recently on the issue in the presence of Greenpeace India, Palni Hills

  • 12/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Mastitis downs cows

  If statistics are anything to go by, India is the biggest milk producer in the world, producing 85 million metric tonnes of milk every year. The dairy industry's growth rate is 4 per cent despite a 2

  • 12/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Agriculture

• Western UP faces floods

  A flood like situation is being witnessed in many parts of western Uttar Pradesh. Thousands of villagers, mostly belonging to the villages of Hastinapur have been rendered homeless. Surprisingly, no

  • 17/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Ivory seized in Karnataka

  Even as India celebrated Ganesha Visarjan, the end of the 10-day festival celebrating the elephant God on Friday, the survival of Ganesha's avatar in India is severely endangered, with a fresh

  • 19/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Wildlife