Union Minister C.R. Patil. | Photo Credit: PTI Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu met Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil at Udaipur in Rajasthan on Wednesday. On the occasion, the Union Minister assured that the Centre would extend all help to complete the Polavaram irrigation project as per the deadlines. During the meeting, Mr. Ramanaidu … Read more
The Chakkaraparambu-Seaport-Airport road is expected to ease traffic near the accident-prone Chakkaraparambu Jn. and on roads linking the bypass to Kakkanad and Thripunithura. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT Even as efforts are under way to fast-track land acquisition for the 3.70-km M.G. Road-Pullepady-Thammanam-NH Bypass corridor, a 15-year-old proposal to extend the four-lane corridor eastward from … Read more
Congress general secretary (communication) Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Congress on Sunday (January 5, 2025) termed the Great Nicobar Island infrastructure project a “recipe for ecological and humanitarian disaster” and said the Prime Minister should immediately order a pause and set up an independent panel to review it. Congress general secretary Jairam … Read more
An aerial view seen after tsunami at Indira Point in Andaman, Nicobar Islands, India. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images An international cruise terminal to facilitate a “global” port-led city, “high-end” tourism infrastructure, and a ship-breaking yard are among the new additions to the ₹72,000 crore mega-infrastructure project in Great Nicobar Island proposed by the … Read more
As the government tackles the delay in the LCA Mark 1A fighter jet project, the price of the deal for the LCA Mark-2 engine is likely to go up, increasing the overall cost of the project, defence ministry sources said on Monday. The deal is being negotiated by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and the American … Read more
On December 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Madhya Pradesh’s Khajuraho to lay the foundation stone for various development projects. Among them was the ambitious Ken-Betwa river linking project that plans to transfer excess water from the Ken river basin to the Betwa river basin in the Bundelkhand region that covers parts of Madhya … Read more
The Kerala Maritime Board is preparing a project to boost cargo movement in the State by linking minor ports, its chairman N.S. Pillai has said. He was speaking at an interaction organised by the Malabar Chamber of Commerce here on Tuesday. Mr. Pillai said that preliminary discussions related to the project had been held with … Read more
T. Harish Rao. File | Photo Credit: MOHD ARIF HYDERABAD The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has ridiculed the claims of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy that it is the credit of the Congress Government to achieve the record production of paddy this Kharif season without completing any pending or new irrigation project since December last … Read more
Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav has formally requested Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu to expedite the land acquisition process for the Jilledubanda Reservoir (JBR) project located in the Dharmavaram Assembly constituency of Sri Sathya Sai district. In a letter addressed … Read more
Getty Images An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 types of cell – such as heart muscle or nerve cells. Instead the Human Cell Atlas project has revealed there … Read more