Rice is the seed for an ongoing debate in China. One the one hand hybrid rice has better yield. On the other hand some experts say, that hybrid rice is is low quality, does not taste as good, and requires a large amount of fertilizers and pesticides. Hybrid rice techniques could help feed 70 million […]
The government has been undertaking welfare schemes to reduce poverty, hunger and unemployment. But the emphasis has been on the fulfilment of numerical targets, not on the way in which the targets are met. The overemphasis on targets has destroyed the efficacy of policies. The Narendra Modi government has started the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. In […]
On Sunday, the green flag waved for the inaugural run of the China-South Asia freight service. It’s a great boost for trade links. Operation of the first China-South Asia international freight route is officially underway from Sunday, linking Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, and Katmandu in Nepal. Following the launch of regular service on […]
Sir 5th November is celebrated as World Tsunami Awareness day in all over the world. This is the first time that World Tsunami Awareness Day is being celebrated. After the traumatic impact of tsunamis on coastal areas around the Indian Ocean in December 2004 that killed up to 230,000 people, and on the Japanese coast […]
World Science Day for Peace and Development is celebrated on 10 November each year and was established by UNESCO. It gives an opportunity to demonstrate to the wider public why science is relevant to their daily lives and to engage them in debate and discussion on related issues. By building bridges between science and society, […]
Colombo: Want an international degree in Environmental Sciences? Good News! The NSBM Green University, South Asia’s first green university was declared open by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (October 26). The NSBM Green University, equipped with modern facilities has been built as a university town at a 26 acre land […]
India’s booming population and tourism industry, and the ongoing drought, are escalating contact and conflict between people and wildlife. Every year hundreds have their crops destroyed or farm animals killed – and, in some cases, are killed or injured themselves – by tigers, elephants, sloth bears and wild boars, as villages grow and spill over […]
Astonishing, alarming, but True! Throughout the United States, trees are dying at an astonishing rate. The reasons for the die-off vary from place to place — drought, disease, insects and wildfires — but reports say the root cause is the same: climate change. The epidemic is even threatening the oldest white oak tree in America, […]
Annette Dixon of the World Bank writes: October 17 is the international day to end poverty. There has been much progress toward this important milestone: the World Bank Group’s latest numbers show that since 1990 nearly 1.1 billion people have escaped extreme poverty. Between 2012 and 2013 alone, around 100 million people moved out of […]
HYDERABAD: More than two years after Telangana came into existence as India’s 29th state, the TRS government in the state carried out the biggest administrative reform, creating 21 new districts. With this, the total number of districts in the state went up to 31 from 10, following the reorganisation process. Telangana, carved out of Andhra […]
China has been quietly hinting to Pakistan that it has to get its act together on terrorism, otherwise it might have to rethink its position, according to a report in Asia Times. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, seems to have finally realized that Pakistan cannot fully reap the benefits of CPEC(China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) if eastern […]
Watch out India! Zika infections are “highly likely” to keep spreading across Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Hundreds of cases of the virus have been reported in Singapore while two cases of Zika-linked microcephaly have already been confirmed in Thailand. The mosquito-borne virus has been detected in 70 countries worldwide, at least 19 […]
