BRS asks how Congress achieved record paddy production without completing any project

BRS asks how Congress achieved record paddy production without completing any project

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

JBR project in Dharmavaram: Andhra Minister Satya Kumar Yadav requests Nimmala Ramanaidu to expedite land acquisition process

JBR project in Dharmavaram: Andhra Minister Satya Kumar Yadav requests Nimmala Ramanaidu to expedite land acquisition process

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

Human Cell Atlas project transforms understanding of human body

Human Cell Atlas project transforms understanding of human body

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

Trade unions to continue protests against ADB-assisted drinking water project in Kochi

Trade unions to continue protests against ADB-assisted drinking water project in Kochi

The combine of trade unions in the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) will continue with its protests against the proposed Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Kerala Urban Water Services Improvement Project (KUWSIP) in Kochi as talks held with Water Resources Minister Roshy Augustine on Tuesday failed to make headway on the issue. The trade unions will take … Read more

Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024: Uddhav’s Sena (UBT) releases manifesto; promises to scrap Dharavi project, provide free education

Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024: Uddhav’s Sena (UBT) releases manifesto; promises to scrap Dharavi project, provide free education

Uddhav Thackeray releases his party’s manifesto for upcoming Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024 at his residence in Mumbai on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini Shivsena (UBT) Chief Uddhav Thackeray unveiled his party’s manifesto for the Maharashtra Assembly polls on Thursday (November 7, 2024), assuring free education for male students, stabilising prices of essential items and scrapping … Read more

Madhya Pradesh-Rajasthan joint panel formed for coordination on cheetah project

Madhya Pradesh-Rajasthan joint panel formed for coordination on cheetah project

In this file image, Cheetahs at Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district. | Photo Credit: PTI In the wake of incidents of cheetahs from Madhya Pradesh straying into neighbouring Rajasthan, a joint corridor management committee of both the states has been formed to work for conservation of the felines, officials said on … Read more

BBMP launches pilot project to feed stray dogs in Bengaluru 

BBMP launches pilot project to feed stray dogs in Bengaluru 

The BBMP’s Animal Husbandry Department organised the Festival of Dogs (Kukur Tihar), to celebrate its initiative of feeding stray dogs in select areas across eight zones in Bengaluru on October 17, 2024.  | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) launched a pilot project on Thursday (October 17, 2024) to provide food … Read more

Immunotherapy project aims to benefit more cancer patients

Immunotherapy project aims to benefit more cancer patients

BBC News Alex Green in now in remission from his cancer Alex Green is clear – without immunotherapy, he would have died in 2019. His advanced melanoma skin cancer was only stopped by the revolutionary treatment that recruits the body’s own immune system to fight the disease. But unfortunately at the moment the majority of … Read more

What is e-rupee and why do Google Pay, PhonePe want to join RBI’s digital rupee project?

What is e-rupee and why do Google Pay, PhonePe want to join RBI’s digital rupee project?

The e-rupee, or the digital rupee, is a digital currency issued by the RBI [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The story so far: Fintech companies including Google, PhonePe, Amazon Pay, Cred, and Mobikwik are looking to join the Indian central bank’s digital currency project by allowing their users to transact in e-rupee via Unified Payments … Read more

Vizhinjam project was UDF’s dream child, says Satheesan

Vizhinjam project was UDF’s dream child, says Satheesan

Opposition leader V.D. Satheesan inaugurating a public meeting organised by the district wing of the United Democratic Front in Kochi to highlight the role of former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in the Vizhinjam port project. | Photo Credit: R.K. Nithin Opposition leader V.D. Satheesan on Friday said the Vizhinjam port project was the United Democratic … Read more