Saving the Wonder
Agra's Taj Mahal will soon heave a sigh of relief and breathe clean air, it seems. In the first week of March Satish Sharma, the minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, announced a 10-point
Agra's Taj Mahal will soon heave a sigh of relief and breathe clean air, it seems. In the first week of March Satish Sharma, the minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, announced a 10-point
Emperor Shahjahan should rest easy in his tomb. The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has given a nod to the second phase of afforestation around the marble wonder, estimated to cost Rs 15.90 crore.
L N MODI, the managing trustee of the Bharatiya Cattle Research Foundation, Delhi, said that adulteration of milk is on the rise. Speaking at a press confer- ence in Delhi, he informed that in
The controversy began in 1973 as a debate over the suitability of setting up the Mathura refinery (MR) about 40 km from Taj Mahal. Successive expert committees have, since then, defeated all
The controversy over the use of polluting coal by industries in the Taj Trapezium Zone in Agra has assumed political overtones. Local politicians are siding with the industrialists to stall the
GAIL India is going to invest Rs 550 crore in the proposed Blue Sky project which seeks to set up a gas distribution network across Kanpur, Agra, Lucknow, Faridabad and Pune. The project is going
Gail (India) Ltd will supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the four cities of Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra and Bareilley. The project, which envisages the supply of natural gas to retail consumers and also
Gail india will soon enter into a joint venture with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to establish an entity to supply compressed natural gas (CNG) to Agra, and to 10 other major towns of Uttar
The GAIL(India) Ltd and IOC have signed a joint venture agreement for implementation of city gas projects in Agra and Lucknow. The two companies would form a joint venture for supply of compressed
Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL), which has been supplying Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to over 300 industries in Agra and Firozabad, has expressed its inability to make more gas available to these
For the past ten days, the people in Agra are drinking industrial effluents and waste water running down the Yamuna river from Delhi. The contaminated water is of several colours - except white and
If officials are to be believed, Agra's residents can breathe easier now. Soon, after the decision to use a 'multani mitti pack to restore the Taj Mahal, comes the news that the city's air quality
Iron Foundries in Agra which had been identified as the main culprit causing harm to the historical monuments through environmental pollution by several expert committees, have finally been told by
A three-day international seminar on nuclear medicine in infection imaging was inaugurated at Agra today by the Vice Chancellor of Dr B R Ambedkar University, Mr Manzoor
The Uttar Pradesh government has sanctioned a Rs 1,000 crore scheme for making Agra green. The scheme includes a Taj trapezium to be built at a cost of Rs 600
A tiny antenna buried 120 metres below the surface near Agra has been keeping an "ear" on earthquakes in the Himalayas and has successfully been providing early warnings, scientists have reported.
The US President, Mr. Bill Clinton's environment agenda for India is likely to be announced on March 23, the day on which he is scheduled to address an environmental meet in Agra and later visit the
The grain trading arm of ConAgra, the second largest food processor in the US, announced that, as part of a marketing deal with Monsanto, it would accept all forms of genetically modified corn grown
more villages to be evacuated: The Revenue Minsiter, Mr. B. Somashekar, has said that a directive will be issued in a week to the people of Binaga, Agra and Chendiye to shift to rehabilitation centre
Uttar Pradesh's first ever test-tube baby was born to Reeta and Kanchan Ahluwalia last Saturday at the Malhotra Nursing Home in Agra. Dr R M Malhotra of the Malhotra Test Tube Baby Centre announced