Protesters in Thailand have blocked parliament to postpone debate on a reconciliation bill designed to ease a six-year political crisis. The anti-government “yellow-shirt” group fear that a proposed amnesty would allow deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return. Parliament’s Speaker said the debate…
(Reuters) - India‘s monsoon may not arrive on Friday due to a cyclonic pressure over the Arabian Sea but the annual rains are still expected to arrive nearly on time, weather officials said on Thursday. The annual rains are crucial for farm output…
(Reuters) - Two years ago, Vilas Yelmar took out a 200,000 rupee bank loan to develop a small grape orchard in a dusty hamlet southeast of Mumbai. The bank has repeatedly asked for the loan to be repaid, but Yelmar, whose annual…
atna, June 1 (IANS) An indefinite curfew was imposed in Ara town and red alert was sounded in Bihar‘s four districts Friday, after unidentified gunmen shot dead Brahmeshwar Singh ‘Mukhiya’, chief of the outlawed Ranvir Sena, police said. Singh, in his early 70s,…
Human rights committee to call for full UN inquiry into attacks in Houla that killed 108 people, many of them children. The United Nation‘s Human Rights Committee is set to meet in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss last week’s massacre in Syria that…
Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd plans to raise over Rs2,000 crore through private placement of bonds next month. A placement is seen a cheaper option for raising money than commercial loans overseas due to a weakening rupee. http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_power-grid-to-float-bonds_1696530
The average temperature of Indore may increase by 2 degree Celsius by 2030 and by 2080, it may go up by 3 to 4 degree Celsius. Besides, Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect may add another 2 to 4 degrees. To sum up,…
The climate change in northern India is likely to have a severely detrimental impact on the productivity of wheat, the prime crop in Punjab, which is likely to go down by over 8% by 2035. Temperature in the state is expected to…
National Advisory Council (NAC) member Aruna Roy has written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi seeking implementation of a Central Information Commission order on making the safety report of Kudankulam nuclear power plant public. The CIC on May 1 had asked Department of…