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 [...]

Source : hindustantimes
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Faridabad: Two people died and 11 were injured when a fire broke out in a factory on Wednesday.Theblazewas reported from Imperial Auto Industries in Sector 25 around 11am, police said.
Factory workers were heating some chemicals on a stove and it backfired. The fire quickly spread to nearby drums containing thinner and got out of control. [...]

New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the Reserve Bank of India to make public the names and other details of top 100 industrialists of the country who have defaulted on loans from public sector banks. The commission also directed the central bank to post on its website [...]

Source : timesofindia.com
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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 [...]

Kozhikode: Oxo-biodegradable plastic carry-bags and packaging materials, which offer a possible solution to the plastic menace, made their entry into the Kerala market recently.
And for a district such as Kozhikode, declared plastic-waste-free by the district administration two months ago, they may help to sustain the momentum of the campaign against non-biodegradable plastic, coming as they [...]

Raipur: The classification of forests as ‘no go’ zones for coal mining may have divided the government but it has united activist groups, often opposed to each other. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 27 environmental groups, wildlife researchers and social activists urged him to back the environment and forest ministry’s classification of [...]

नई दिल्ली पर्यावरण और विकास में तालमेल पर जारी बहस के बीच योजना आयोग की धन आवंटन का नया फार्मूला गढ़ने की कवायद केंद्र और राज्यों के बीच एक नई बहस छेड़ सकती है। सरकार की तैयारी केंद्रीय योजनाओं के लिए धन देने से पहले पर्यावरण के मोर्चे पर सूबों के प्रदर्शन को भी आंकने [...]