-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A special CBI court on Friday convicted former coal secretary H C Gupta and others in a case pertaining to the allocation of a coal block to Kamal Sponge Steel and Power LIMited (KSSPL). Gupta is the first secretary-rank officer to be convicted in a case pertaining to coal block allocation. Special CBI judge Bharat Parashar also convicted the coal ministry's former joint secretary K S Kropha...

-Livemint.com All our solutions in agriculture, besides management issues, are going to come from science and technology, says Deepak Pental, innovator of GM mustard Last week, the environment ministry’s regulator, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), cleared the commercial release of genetically modified (GM) mustard, leaving it to the government to take a final call. If approved, it will be India’s first food crop developed using transgenic technology, 15 years after Bt...

-Hindustan Times The amendments to the law will ensure that ministers, Members of Parliament and bureaucrats, don’t overstay in government bungalows. New Delhi: The Centre’s push to rid its LIMited living spaces of squatters got a fillip on Wednesday with the Union cabinet clearing amendments to the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971. The amendments to the law will ensure that ministers, Members of Parliament and bureaucrats, don’t overstay in government...

-The Hindu ‘India exporting rice worth Rs. 40,000 crore annually due to scientific application’ BHUBANESWAR: India is exporting rice worth Rs. 40,000 crore annually and other food products despite facing massive adverse impact of cLIMate change, said Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary in the Department of Agriculture Research and Education. Mr. Mohapatra, also the Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, said the massive upswing in food production was possible due to application...

-The Times of India When cycling enthusiast Amit Bhatt moved to Gurugram from Delhi some eight years back, he was counting on clean air and clear roads. But eight years later, Bhatt, the head of urban transport at World Resources Institute (WRI), has had to seriously cut down on cycling. That's because over the years the air in Gurugram has become so foul it's now quite unbreathable. TOI did an analysis of...