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Widows of farmers who committed suicide in the Bt-cotton fields of Maharashtra-Vidarbha, along with tribal and agriculturists, are gearing up to intensify their agitation against the introduction of GM (genetically-modified) seeds into the food crops. A ...

The CICR Nagpur Hall has held two meetings in the last seven days. One was chaired by Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil and the other by Maharashtra Government's appointed committee on allowing field tests to genetically ...

Dianuke.org The Supreme Courts verdict on Koodankulam rests on three hugely contested premises: the judges belief in the necessity of the nuclear energy for Indias progress, their faith in the countrys nuclear establishment to perform its role, and ...

Nuclear experts today welcomed the Supreme Court's green signal to the Kudankulam nuclear project, saying it has vindicated the stand that atomic power was safe and secure. Senior nuclear officials also see the apex Court decision as a morale ...

Hasty expansion, faculty shortage and falling student standards are taking the sheen off India's best engineering brand. Tags: IIT | IITs in India | IIT education | Brand IIT Nitin Kumar Reddy came across as a chilled-out guy. He was nerdy, yet ...

MUMBAI: Late Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna, who passed away last year, has been honoured with the Padma Bhushan Award 2013. His wife, Bollywood actor Dimple Kapadia collected the award today from the President of India Pranab Mukherjee. The Padma ...

International News: New Delhi: Google on Tuesday marked the 160th anniversary of the first passenger train journey in India with a doodle on its homepage. On April 16, 1853, the first commercial passenger train chugged out of Bori Bunder, in Bombay ...

Between train collision and derailment, which is the bigger villan? It's rail derailment, suggests empirical evidence. According to documents available with Express, 514 people died following derailments across the country between 2001 and 2011, as ...

The uncomfortable regularity in the occurrence of train derailments, such as the one involving the Muzaffarpur-Yesvantpur weekly Express on Wednesday morning at Sitheri near Arakkonam, about 80 km from here, continues to be a source of worry for ...