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There is one thing every one in Delhi seems to believe but no one would come on record. The UPA government is inexorably slipping into a Bofors-like situation. A section of the Congress leaders are highly perturbed about the slide. They blame the government’s style of functioning and the lack of authority it displays throughout. As the MPs prepare to disperse after a premature end of the winter session, the Congress men feel scary about the growing public perception: that the government is becoming ineffective in dealing with the challenges before it.

New York: Cutting emissions from the world’s waste management companies could have a big impact in the fight against climate change, according to a United Nations report released today.

New York: Warning that talks to reunite Cyprus could “founder fatally” if substantive agreement is not reached within the next few months, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders to ready a practical plan by January to overcome major differences.

New York: Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean must act to protect the extraordinary wealth of plant and wildlife in the region and harness their potential as “biodiversity superpowers,” according to a new United Nations report.

New York: Italy, the United States, Greece, Belgium and the United Kingdom top a list of two dozen developed countries that let their most vulnerable children fall even further behind, with enormous consequences not only for the youngsters themselves but for the economy and society at large, according to a new United Nations report released today.

New Delhi: A Committee of Central Advisory Board of Education on “Regulatory Mechanism for Textbooks and Parallel Textbooks taught in schools outside Government system” has recommended establishment of “National Textbook Council” to monitor textbooks used in schools in the country so that standard of education could be maintained and the student community is not exposed to inferior quality of textbooks or undesirable content.

New Delhi: Government is engaged with Research in Motion (RIM), the provider of Blackberry services, to find out a solution for the interception and monitoring of messenger chat and enterprise email using Blackberry phone.

New Delhi: In view of sudden surge in airfares for flights on various metros from 15 November, 2010 onwards compared to those prevalent a week before, without any increase in cost of operation, all the scheduled airlines were directed to charge tariff at a reasonable level on 17 November, 2010.

New Delhi: As per studies conducted by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), it has been concluded that soil erosion is one of the factors responsible for the decline in agricultural output across the country. The major causes of soil erosion are deforestation, overgrazing, forest encroachment, shifting cultivation, extension of cultivation to marginal lands, development activities like mining and road construction, urbanization, etc.

New Delhi: Research project findings of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) on wheat crop indicated that there is about 3 to 4% decrease in grain yield with 1ºC rise in temperature during grain filling stage. Out of 28 million hectares area under wheat in India, about 9 million hectares in north eastern plains zone, central zone and peninsular zone is prone to terminal heat stress.