Tapping the East to spread green revolution

BISWANATH CHARIALI, April 10 - Gingia was a little known place till a few years back under Biswanath subdivision in Sonitpur district, about 10 km from Biswanath Chariali town towards the east. This little known place has become famous in recent years not ...

Will Shale Revolution Trigger A New World Order? EU leaders will grapple with controversial issues including shale gas development and climate change mitigation at an energy summit on 22 May, documents obtained by EurActiv show. As agreed at the ...

Introduced a decade and a half ago under Myanmar's former military rulers, SIM cards sold for as much as $7,000 apiece. Today, they still cost more than $200. From Thursday, lucky winners of a lottery-style sale may get one for as little as $2. This ...

Apples in the Himalayan foothills are seeing the worst effects of climate change already, according to farmers. Orchards are shifting upland as winters shorten and glaciers retreat. The hills of Thanedar-Kotgarh lie four hours from Shimla, the ...

Bangalore-based The Global Green Company Limited, part of the USD4bn Avantha Group, signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Driptech, inc., USA for the distribution of its proprietary drip irrigation systems. Top Stories Sugar finally ...

When President Barack Obama called for the United States to lead energy innovation in his inauguration speech in January, he spoke with a sense of urgency. He put energy at the forefront of the country's industrial competitiveness. And the rival at ...

Greener, saner ideas of leading an organic life! It's all in the bagBiotech bags, ChennaiT.S. Shankker, 46Decay is goodShankker was appalled by the excessive use of plastic in the country. "Plastic bags are convenient. They are flexible and can ...

For the second year running, the Government of India's Economic Survey has a chapter on 'Sustainable Development and Climate Change'. This appears to signal an increasing acknowledgment of the ecological impacts of development, confined to a few ...

President Obama arrived in Israel today for a regional visit in which he will have to juggle three rapidly ticking time bombs: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Syria's war, and Iran's nuclear program. President Obama landed today in Israel to great ...