To extend and expand their research collaboration to create new and optimized production methods for high-value food ingredients, Evolva Holding SA signed an agreement with San Francisco, California-based Abunda Nutrition, Inc., on October 25. The primary purpose of the collaboration is to invent innovative products that can help in improving health and wellness. Expected to…
On his official work visit to Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh engaged in extensive talks on bilateral, regional and global issues with his Japanese counterpart Naoto Kan on October 25. Both the prime ministers welcomed India-Japan cooperation in development of new and renewable energy, clean coal technology and enhancing energy efficiency in India’s power…
Imagine: Every time money is withdrawn from the home ministry’s or the railway department’s bank account, you will get an alert on your mobile. You can even check the purpose of the withdrawal and have a right to object to that. All that you will have to do is subscribe to the free alert on…
In India, over two lakh people, including about 80,000 children below the age of 15 years, die because of malaria. The claim is made by a study published in reputed medical journal The Lancet. The researchers have provided a range with a lower estimate at 125,000 and an upper estimate at 277,000 of the death…
The Supreme Court has asked the government to come up with a ‘real number’ on people living below poverty line (BPL). The court said that the official data claiming that there were 5.9 crore BPL families in the country was not convincing. An apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma said…
South Korean steel major Posco’s India project faces a huge cloud of uncertainty. The expert panel set up by the environment ministry has accused the company of violating environmental laws. Three of four members of the committee recommended that all initial clearances to the project be cancelled. Former environment secretary Meena Gupta was the only…
By no means should it seem amazing – that bicycle ownership (30″50 per cent) in Indian cities is much higher than ownership of cars (3″13 per cent) and two-wheelers. Bicycle use in India varies from 7″15 per cent in large cities to 13″21 per cent in medium and small cities. Its high ownership, low…
We cannot solve the problems that we have created with the same thinking that created them.’ – ” Albert Einstein The phrase ‘sustainable development’ buzzes around politics and economics today, but seldom is the phrase defined and even more rarely is the concept rigorously applied to the future of transport and access issues. The traditional…
‘Economic growth is our overriding priority; there is no doubt that we have to grow at 8 to 9 per cent a year, but not at the cost of environment, not at the cost of nature, not at the cost of our forests, mountains, rivers and land. So, we have to find that balance between…
‘There is no substitute to women empowerment. If we have to bring social equality in the country, women have to be happy in individual homes as well as society. The nation will not prosper without their happiness,’ said President Pratibha Patil. ‘Women had fought shoulder to shoulder with men during the freedom struggle. But the…
