BARC offers technology to turn sewage into fertiliser
July 28th, 2012 - 1:56 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, July 28 (IANS) India's premier nuclear research organisation, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), is planning to deploy its technology in treatment of sewage through radiation, and its conversion into ... Read more...
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HCC among 10 global companies for green initiative
June 20th, 2012 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 20 (IANS) Mumbai-based infrastructure major Hindustan Construction Company has got the rare distinction of being the only Indian company to feature in the Climate Report released by the ... Read more...
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Containerised sewage treatment plant from G.D. Nanovation
February 8th, 2012 - 7:38 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Feb 8 (IANS) Coimbatore-based G.D. Nanovation Pvt Ltd is targeting residential apartments, malls, hotels and hospital for its container-based sewage treatment plants launched here Wednesday. It is also looking ... Read more...
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ADB to be tapped for funding Jammu water scheme
January 4th, 2012 - 7:09 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, January 4 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government will approach the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to seek monetary assistance for the launch of a major water supply scheme.Chief Minister ... Read more...
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L&T; bags orders worth Rs.2,700 crore
December 7th, 2011 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Dec 7 (IANS) Engineering major Larsen and Toubro (L&T;) Wednesday said it has managed to bag five orders in various segments like construction, infrastructure and electricity worth Rs.2,700 crore ... Read more...
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Security guard electrocuted
June 24th, 2011 - 10:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) In a freak incident, a security guard at a water treatment plant in north Delhi was electrocuted Friday when he touched a high-tension wire while ... Read more...
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Three drug peddlers held
May 19th, 2011 - 2:11 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) An inter-state drug trafficking racket has been busted with the arrest of three peddlers here, police said Wednesday.The accused were arrested Tuesday near Haiderpur water ... Read more...
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Indian river turned into ‘hotspot for dumped drugs’
February 17th, 2011 - 6:33 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 17 (ANI): An Indian river has turned into a dumping ground for drugs from a waste-water treatment plant in Patancheru, near Hyderabad.The continual discharge of antibiotic-contaminated water has created a ... Read more...
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Household sewage - an untapped energy resource
January 6th, 2011 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): Household sewage has far more potential as an alternative energy source than previously thought, say scientists.They say the discovery, which increases the estimated potential energy in wastewater by ... Read more...
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Yeddyurappa to stay: Gadkari (Lead)
December 7th, 2010 - 10:51 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Dec 7 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Tuesday ruled out replacing Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is facing charges of illegal land deals."There is no question ... Read more...
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Carlsberg opens fifth brewery in India
December 1st, 2010 - 8:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Danish brewer Carlsberg Wednesday said it has opened its fifth brewery with an investment of Rs.128 crore in Medak in Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region.The state-of-the-art brewery ... Read more...
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Many in Kerala still drink water containing endosulphan
November 12th, 2010 - 7:51 pm ICT by IANS
Wayanad (Kerala), Nov 12 (IANS) Almost a year after two samples of drinking water tested positive for the highly dangerous pesticide endosulphan, many in Mananthavady town in Kerala's hilly district of Wayanad ... Read more...
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Finland hopeful of EU-India trade agreement: Finnish minister
October 28th, 2010 - 11:43 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Oct 28 (IANS) Finland is hopeful of a free trade agreement between the European Union and India ahead of the EU-India summit in December.Finland's Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo ... Read more...
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Father, son arrested for honour killing
September 18th, 2010 - 11:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) A man and his son have been arrested for murdering a youth, who allegedly had an illicit relationship with the man's daughter, police said Saturday
Azad, 40 and ... Read more...
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Dhaka to upgrade its second largest port
August 16th, 2010 - 12:42 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Aug 16 (IANS) Bangladesh plans to upgrade Mongla, its second largest port, and to build a third sea port at Kuakata. The twin moves are aimed at providing greater sea access ... Read more...
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Jamia Milia gets grant of Rs.54.2 crore
August 12th, 2010 - 1:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) The University Grants Commission (UGC) has allocated a special grant of Rs.54.2 crore for Jamia Millia Islamia University, an official said here Thursday.
"The fund has been allocated ... Read more...
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MCD plans 15 special teams to catch stray cattle
August 12th, 2010 - 12:27 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) With the Commonwealth Games around the corner, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Wednesday discussed the stray cattle menace in the capital and promised to formulate special ... Read more...
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Ghaziabad district magistrate transferred
June 14th, 2010 - 10:16 pm ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, June 14 (IANS) Ghaziabad District Magistrate R. Ramesh Kumar was Monday transferred from his post, a day after agitating Jats cut off water supply to Delhi from the Upper Ganga Canal, ... Read more...
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Delhi’s water crisis ends, Jats call off protest (Third Lead)
June 14th, 2010 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Ghaziabad, June 14 (IANS) The water crisis that had gripped the Indian capital ended Monday after Jats in Uttar Pradesh demanding job quotas called off a protest during which they cut ... Read more...
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Delhi’s water crisis ends, Jats call off protest (Second Lead)
June 14th, 2010 - 3:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Ghaziabad, June 14 (IANS) The water crisis that had gripped the Indian capital ended Monday after Jats in Uttar Pradesh demanding job quotas called off a protest during which they cut ... Read more...
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Militancy affected Tripura village cherishes peace
June 9th, 2010 - 8:30 pm ICT by ANI
Jirania village (Tripura), June 9 (ANI): Having been a militants' den for a long time, Tripura's Jirania village cherishes a peaceful and normal daily life due to government efforts.With the changing ... Read more...
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Help civic agency solve water woes, court tells residents
February 28th, 2010 - 5:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Fed up with not receiving water supply for nearly three months, a resident of east Delhi's Shahdara area has approached the Delhi High Court, which in turn ... Read more...
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Kolkata projects to be named after Jyoti Basu
January 31st, 2010 - 12:11 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 30 (IANS) The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Saturday announced that three of its projects will be named after late Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu.
The projects are a water ... Read more...
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Chennai firm to set up water plant for Delhi Games
December 7th, 2009 - 6:59 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 7 (IANS) City-based VA Tech Wabag, a Rs.574-crore turnkey contracting company, will commission a water treatment plant in Delhi early next year for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
The plant, with a ... Read more...
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Leaving Iraq would bring $53bn reconstruction back to square one, fears America
November 21st, 2009 - 3:54 pm ICT by ANI
Baghdad, Nov. 21 (ANI): The United States has spent 53 billion dollars in relief and reconstruction work in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, but American officials fear that Iraq will not be ... Read more...
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Apex court rejects plea to ban idol immersion in water bodies
November 20th, 2009 - 6:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a plea to ban idol immersions in water bodies across the country, saying restrictions would militate against the fundamental right of a ... Read more...
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Rs.138 cr water supply plant for Gurgaon
November 5th, 2009 - 4:21 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Nov 5 (IANS) The Haryana government Thursday announced sanctioning of a Rs.138-crore (Rs.1.38 billion) project to improve drinking water supply in Gurgaon.
A public health department spokesman said a second water treatment ... Read more...
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Apex court moved to stop idol immersion in rivers
October 9th, 2009 - 9:49 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday refused to accord an urgent hearing to a plea for stopping the environment-harming immersion of idols of various deities in rivers and ... Read more...
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Delhi Jal Board pulled up for not supplying water to locality
September 23rd, 2009 - 8:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Taking serious view of the fact that a locality in east Delhi has not been receiving water supply for the past 87 days, the Delhi High Court ... Read more...
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Atlanta Flooding claims atleast 2 lives
September 22nd, 2009 - 3:14 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Atlanta, Sep 21 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Atlanta is under a flood watch until Monday evening, weather forecasters said on Sunday. The deadly flood has already claimed at least 2 lives when these people ... Read more...
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DJB explains ‘erratic’ water supply in Delhi locality
September 7th, 2009 - 8:49 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Shahdara in east Delhi has not been receiving water supply for close to three months as the locality comes at the tail end of a supply line, ... Read more...
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Coimbatore company creates ‘confidence’ in South America (Latin American Diary)
July 31st, 2009 - 10:50 am ICT by IANS
By R. Viswanathan
The name of a small but confident company from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu has inspired confidence among Latin American clients in Peru, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Argentina, who have ... Read more...
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Penalise people found wasting water: Sheila Dikshit (Lead)
June 29th, 2009 - 8:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Monday asked the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to penalise people found wasting water in the capital and appealed to the residents to use ... Read more...
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Waste water treatment plant mud to reduce CO2 emissions in cement factories
June 24th, 2009 - 3:19 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 24 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have shown that waste water treatment plant mud can be used as a partial alternative fuel to enable cement factories to reduce their ... Read more...
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria found in fertilizer
May 29th, 2009 - 2:06 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 29 (ANI): Scientists have found Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE), an antibiotic resistant bacteria in sewage sludge, a by-product of waste-water treatment frequently used as a fertilizer.Leena Sahlstrom, from the ... Read more...
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