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 [...]

If you’re planning to dump your Old TV set or personal computer somewhere, beware. For, if the centre has its way, there will make dumping electronic waste an offence. Also in the offing are a set of guidelines to regulate e-waste recycling and check its adverse impact on environment and health.
In the absence of any [...]

New Delhi: Used paper cups thrown outside juice and coffee shops could be behind India’s colony collapse disaster — the disappearing population of honey bees that pollinate 80% of all crops.
The sugary residue in these cups attract honey bees who look at it as an alternative
source of food . A “considerable population” of honey bees [...]

The growing practice of weaving electronics into the fiber of clothing could add to the already monumental challenge of e-waste disposal. Some fifty million tons of electronic waste already accumulate annually in “soaring mountains” of refuse, the United Nations says.

As a Science Times article on wired textiles recently noted, electronic or “smart” textiles have electronics in the [...]

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It earns MCD almost Rs 1.5 cr in auction fees but lacks basics such as suction pumps, fire equipment and even a power connection
Visitors are too scared to enter it, residents use it only because it is cheap and car thieves think it is a good place to dump cars in. Welcome to Municipal Corporation [...]

Vadodara: A large chunk of textbooks meant for children of the backward classes in Bhavnagar may have been sold to a  Scrap dealer in Vadodara. Bhavnagar Polic are investigating a case of the pilferage of these books to sell them to scrap dealers after the scam came to light last week.
The Gujarat Patyapustak Mandal has [...]

The use of waste-paper to produce paper and paperboard is a good economics across the world. Recycling of paper is a significant part of the paper manufacturing process in Europe. Monitoring Report 2006 of the European Declaration on paper recycling by the European Recovered Paper Council (ERPC) has confirmed a high record of paper recycling [...]

Paper is an essential commodity with which all of us are very closely associated in our daily life. Its socio-economic importance in the overall development of the country has its own value, which is directly linked with the industrial and educational growth in the country
Demand Paper Increasing
With all around industrial development and upward trend in [...]