Rural health: PM unhappy with States performance Upset with the performance of some states including Karnataka, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to call a special meeting of the National Development Council where the chief ministers are expected to be told to give special emphasis on healthcare. ..
The bell tolls for the birds Chocking cities, receding glaciers, drying rivers and sinking islands are the known consequences of global warming. But climate change could ring the death knell for at least 400 types of birds in the next four decades...
Panel to advise PM on climate change With the objective of guiding the government on climate change issues, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has set up a high level advisory committee with as many as six Cabinet ministers as members.
DURYODHAN CUT TO SIZE
Telugu film bears Telangana ire A Telugu film which tried to make light of the demand for a separate Telangana state has invited the wrath of the supporters of the movement as well as the Censor Board. While the Censor Board imposed as many as 41 cuts, according to reports, groups of youngsters attacked the theatres in the city showing the movie Operation ...
A young Tonga driver (L) sleeps as his pony feeds at a tonga stand in New Delhi on Tuesday. Once a fixture on the capital's roads , the horsedrawn purveyors of people and goods have largely been replaced with modern forms of transport, whether metro, motorcycle or other motor vehicles. Some believe that the one hundred remaining carriages may die out but others reason that the non-polluting tonga may make a comeback to the roads of Delhi. AFP
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