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October 5, 2012 1:48 PM

LMOs-management & safety issues dominate UN biosafety meet in H'bad

Socio-economic concerns and risk assessment of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) have dominated the deliberations at the ongoing Bio-safety conference in Hyderabad. The 6th edition of Meeting of the Parties, being held as prelude to the UN conference on Bio-diversity, witnessed elaborate discussions ...

October 5, 2012 1:43 PM

1,50000cr to be spent on IAF modernisation : Air Chief Browne

Seventy five per cent of the Air Force will be highly modernised by 2022. Addressing the media in New Delhi today, the Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne said that by the end of the 13th plan, about one lakh, fifty thousand crore rupees will be spent on the modernisation plan. He said that acquisition ...

October 5, 2012 1:42 PM

LMOs-management & safety issues dominate UN biosafety meet in H'bad

Socio-economic concerns and risk assessment of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) have dominated the deliberations at the ongoing Bio-safety conference in Hyderabad. The 6th edition of Meeting of the Parties, being held as prelude to the UN conference on Bio-diversity, witnessed elaborate discussions ...

October 5, 2012 1:09 PM

Sangeet Natak Akademi awards & Fellowships announced

Eleven eminent personalities will be conferred with the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship Awards and thirty six artists with Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for the year 2011. The persons who will be awarded Akademi Fellowship include Mukund Lath, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shivkumar Sharma, Amja...

October 5, 2012 12:48 PM

CPI(M) opposes FDI in pension & insurance sector

The CPI(M) today opposed the government's move to raise the cap for Foreign Direction Investment, FDI, in the insurance sector from 26 per cent to 49 per cent and allow 49 per cent FDI in pension funds. In a Politbureau statement issued in New Delhi, the party said, the move will make country's...

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