-The Hindu Concrete structures come up under Indiramma housing scheme CHERIAL (WARANGAL DT., Andhra Pradesh): The lifestyle and habits in villages are fast changing and so also, the physical outlook. The beautiful, typical and old model houses are replaced by Concrete buildings, partly thanks to the Indiramma housing, flagship programme of the State government. Every village boasted of houses of different kinds - thatched roof houses, tiled houses, Chathurashala Bhavanthi and ‘Gadi' or...
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Number of international migrants rises above 232 million, UN reports
-The United Nations More people than ever are living abroad the United Nations today reported, with Asia seeing the largest increase of international migrants over the past decade, and the United States remaining the most popular destination. New figures from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) show that 232 million people, or 3.2 per cent of the world's population, live abroad worldwide, compared with 175 million in 2000 and...
More »Not traders, farmers turn onions into storehouse of value -Jayashree Bhosale
-The Economic Times PUNE: Anand Ostwal, 30-year-old farmer from Satana in Nashik district, who had given last chance to farming after having failed for a decade, is holding on to 500 quintal onions in the hope of buying a car. "If I get a price of Rs 50/kg for the 500 quintal onions, I will get bonus amount of Rs 5 lakh to buy a car. Otherwise, I will have to drop...
More »Cell phone radiation may be harmful, but not lethal -Vasudha Venugopal
-The Hindu Recent studies contradict the view that emissions from cell phone cause irreparable damage to health Chennai: Recent studies in institutions across the world have contradicted reports of radiation from cell phones and their towers damaging the eggs of sparrows, and thereby contributing to their reducing numbers. In the last two years, universities in Kerala, Assam and several Indian and international conservation agencies have raised concerns about the decreasing number of sparrows...
More »CSIR mission to upgrade villages -Smita Bhattacharyya
-The Telegraph Jorhat: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, will implement its CSIR 800 mission at Kaliabor in Nagaon district. The council, which is the largest publicly funded research and development institute in the country, in a change of role has launched CSIR 800 to give a better quality of life to 800 million people of India through scientific and technological intervention. The mission will be launched in 28 clusters of...
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