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The BRIC nations Brazil, Russia, India and China on 26th March, 2010 agreed to cooperate in ensuring global food security by providing food to the vulnerable layers of population and jointly working towards mitigating the effect of climate change on the farm sector. After their maiden Moscow session, BRIC farm Ministers singed a joint declaration in which they have agreed [...]
India has successfully testfired Prithvi II ballistic missile from Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the Orissa coast also Dhanush, the naval version of Prithvi has also been testfired early 27th March 2010. ‘Prithvi-II’ ballistic missile, which has a maximum range of 295 km, was successfully test fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, about 15 km from [...]
only 65 lakh households had got 100 days employment under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme though 10 crore people had got job cards when the programme was launched, said Rural Development Minister C P Joshi. “When NREGA was launched 10 crore people got job cards. Of these, 4.6 crore got work. But only 65 lakh households availed of [...]
IN the early 1960s, across Europe, doctors were confronted with a strange and distressing phenomenon. Hundreds of reports started pouring in about babies being born without arms and legs. They had flippers or fingers emerging from their shoulders. Many were born with eye and ear deformities, and severe internal damage such as malformed kidneys and anal atresia (a condition where there is [...]
IN what is termed as a historic victory, Barack Obama has signed the health care reform legislation. While the labour unions, progressive forces and sections of democrats have hailed this moment as ‘defining’, there was another considerable section in the society that had become very vocal in the recent past opposing these moves. These two surcharged emotions were very much [...]
The Government of India has appointed consultants to work out sector wise pool pricing for KG basin gas or any natural gas. This means that the transport cost of natural gas will be shared by all the states without regard to the location.
Shri Raghu Menon, Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India was elected as Chairman of the Inter-Governmental Council of the International Programme for Development of Communication (IPDC). This is for the first time in the history of IPDC that a developing country will be in the chair of the Inter-Governmental Council of the IPDC. Since its inception, the [...]
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