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New York: The envoy leading United Nations efforts against malaria today praised one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies for its plan to open up its database to scientists in hopes of promoting research to help combat the deadly disease.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved new interventions in the Centrally sponsored Scheme on National Horticulture Mission which was launched during the X Five Year Plan from 2005-06. Based on the feed back received during the implementation of the Scheme, new interventions such as High Density Plantations (HDP), Horticulture Mechanization and certification of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) have been included.

New Delhi: The Minister of State for Defence Shri M M Pallam Raju has asked the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to explore the possibility of hiring helicopters from outside agencies to expedite construction of strategic roads in Arunachal Pradesh and other Himalayan border states.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved the introduction of a new Scheme to provide central assistance for setting up of a model degree college in each of the identified 374 educationally backward districts where Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) for higher education is less than the national GER.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has accorded in principle approval for the establishment of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) to be implemented by the NIC.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved the implementation of the Scheme “Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) on a pilot basis within the plan outlay of Rs.248 crore during 11th five year plan.

New Delhi: The Government of India has formulated a multi pronged strategy to control air polluting which includes comprehensive auto fuel policy to control vehicular pollution, implementation of emission standards and their compliance in major air polluting industries and prohibiting burning of garbage and leaves in urban rural areas.

New Delhi: A Joint Working Group comprising of senior level officers from the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) alongwith senior officers from the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) met to discuss concerns over matters vital and sensitive to both the Governments.

What is going to be the future of the Samajwadi Party now that Amar Singh has said goodbye to it and SP chief Mulayam Singh has accepted it with a “ heavy heart”?

Foxed, why is it called so? From the day the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change was established and the assessment reports came with the summary reports; it is being criticized by authors, reviewers, scientists and environmentalists from the panel within and outside. Controversies suggest that the studies carried out by IPCC were politically mutated and contained serious flaws due to shortcomings of resources on technological front.