India to have 5 rocket launches, including Mars mission, in 2013
Source: Zee News
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-06 02:33:39 -0700 | green-news
India's space agency is planning to have a total of five rocket launches in 2013 from its rocket launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, around 80 km from here...According to officials, the assembling of two rockets is going on...
?Scientists downplay earthquake risks?
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-04-30 14:29:33 -0700 | green-news
Two destructive earthquakes within a week of each other, the first with a 7.5 magnitude on the Iran-Pakistan border, on April 16, and the second measuring 5.6 in eastern Afghanistan last Wednesday, were unsettlingly felt over much of north India,...
MGNREGS could help fight climate change govt study
Source: The Hindustan Times
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-04-30 08:37:54 -0700 | green-news
It also added that works such as check dams, percolation tanks and de-silting of water bodies have contributed to an increase in areas irrigated by borewells and open wells, potentially leading to increased and sustained crop yields in most of...
Global Q&A: ‘What environmental innovations have you seen in your country?'
Source: Epoch Times
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-04-16 23:31:02 -0700 | green-news
What environmental innovations have you seen in your country?' Shyamala Suresh, 23, Consultant, Bangalore, India. Indians, in the face of an environmental disaster are tailor fitting past practicestailoring them to suit the prevailing situation.
India can produce 7.2 million tonnes of mushrooms: Dr Sidhu
Source: Indian Express
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-04-16 18:09:56 -0700 | green-news
Dr Amrik Singh Sidhu, director, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, on Tuesday said that India could produce 7.2 million tonnes of mushroom while providing employment to 30 lakh people. While inaugurating a two-day Indian Mushroom Conference-2013 at Punjab Agricultural...
The way out of the mess on road
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-04-13 22:20:39 -0700 | green-news
This would reduce our dependence on diesel and petrol and lead to lower emission levels, including carbon-di-oxide emission, which is one of the major contributors to global warming and climate change. The charter also seeks to boost growth in the...
Eight dead in gas tanker fire
Source: United Press International
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-04-10 05:01:15 -0700 | green-news
An LPG tanker truck overturned on a highway in India, setting off a fire so intense it killed eight people and destroyed homes in a wide radius, police said. The tanker, which was transporting 17.5 tons of liquid petroleum gas,...
KIOCL plans to convert Kudremukh mine into eco-town
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-04-02 07:14:23 -0700 | green-news
We have already prepared the detailed project report and got the in-principle nod from the Karnataka Government for the project...Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd., had an iron ore mine in Kudremukh. But, the operation of the mine was closed down...
A ?pump? keeps Bay of Bengal saline
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-03-20 14:53:32 -0700 | green-news
March 21, 2013 The Hindu Excess fresh water inow reduces the Bay's salinity. Photo: V.Raju The salinity of the oceans that surround India play an important part in the complex interactions between atmosphere and sea that determines climate over the...
Tamil Girls Can Replace Gas in Cars says New STudy.wmv - YouTube
Posted by: fibonnaci
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-01-12 22:12:29 -0800 | green-news
Scientists at the University of Nevsky in Nunavick, have discovered a remarkable property of sexy Tamil girls. They are capable of producing enough energy in the sex pheromes of their body to run 50-cars for 50 years. Dr. Lewis Jerry,...
'Announce special package for potato farmers'
Source: The Economic Times
Mumbai :: India | updated 2012-04-03 15:43:37 -0700 | disasters-news
Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda has urged the Centre to announce a special package for potato farmers and also establish a potato research station in Hassan, the home district of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda. In...
PSLV-C18 puts four satellites in orbit
Source: The Hindu
Kānpur :: India | updated 2011-12-12 20:11:27 -0800 | technology-news
demonstrated its reliability once again when it put successfully four satellites in orbit on Wednesday. SRM university, near Chennai; Jugnu, built by the students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur; and Vesselsat from Luxembourg.
Bangalore to face dark side of the Telangana agitation
Source: Daily News & Analysis
Bangalore :: India | updated 2011-11-28 07:37:34 -0800 | political-news
The ripples of Telangana agitation have reached the shores of Bangalore...Coal supplies from Singareni coal fields and Nagpur have been hit due to the rail roko agitation in the Telangana region...If normalcy is not restored, load shedding will be inevitable...
GMR to sell energy business stake to Petronas
Source: NewKerala
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2011-11-29 20:00:20 -0800 | business-news
Diversified conglomerate GMR group Monday said it has agreed to sell a 30 percent stake in its power subsidiary GMR Energy to Malaysia-based oil and gas major Petronas International. "This relationship between GMR and Petronas opens up powerful synergy going...
Close Encounters of the Slithering Kind
Posted by: greenogre01
Bangalore :: India | updated 2011-08-29 22:48:33 -0700 | green-news
The Indian Rock Python (Python molurus) is one of two kinds found in India. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists it as NT (Near Threatened). Threatened or not, these snakes can be found every once in a...
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