Untreated Industrial Effluent Dumped On Yamuna Floodplain
New Delhi: The next time you stop along the Yamuna to buy those fresh leafy vegetables, think twice. A study carried out by The Energy Research Institute (TERI) has found that the continuous dumping of untreated industrial effluent and sewage into the river has contaminated the riverbed soil, and [...]

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New Delhi: They watched stupefied, oblivious to the cold, as the raging fire consumed their shanties in the dark hours of Tuesday morning. It lapped up every one of their possessions as it leapt viciously from one hut to another. After two hours, the burnt ground and a few smouldering heaps were all that remained [...]

Iran has begun uranium enrichment programme at a new underground site well protected from possible airstrikes, a leading hardline newspaper reported on Sunday.
Kayhan daily, which is close to Iran’s ruling clerics, said Tehran has begun injecting uranium gas into sophisticated centrifuges at the Fordo facility near the holy city of Qom.
“Kayhan received reports on Saturday [...]

Acknowledging that India has been “overtaken” by countries like China in the “world of science,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for doubling the spending on research and development by the end of the XIIth Plan in 2017.
“Over the past few decades, India’s relative position in the world of science had been declining and we have [...]

Even as the country continues to witness a campaign for a strong anti-corruption watchdog, a report has calculated that between $104 billion and $128 billion (roughly Rs 5 to 6 lakh crore) was illegally siphoned out of India in the decade spanning 2000 to 2009.
This works out to an average outflow of about $10-13 billion [...]

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NEW DELHI: The government on Friday said it had overestimated exports by over $9 billion due to software upgrade and punching errors, which prompted data revision for eight months.
The admission of the mistake overshadowed the other bad news of exports growing by only 4.2% to $22.3 billion in November. With imports growing at 29% to [...]

NEW DELHI: The widening trade deficit with China has the country’s strategic establishment worried, providing backing to the commerce department’s move to restrict imports as part of its ‘China strategy’ while pressing for free-trade agreements with other countries to diversify sourcing.
The National Security Council Secretariat, which recently hosted inter-ministerial consultations on the burgeoning India-China trade gap and [...]

When a man slapped agriculture minister Sharad Pawar recently, he was promptly arrested. But no such action follows when people in power lose their temper and beat up ordinary citizens.
A sarpanch belonging to the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) repeatedly slapped and roughed up a woman teacher in Punjab’s Muktsar district in full public view [...]