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Rhino poaching: Kaziranga's forest officer transferred

In the wake of a spurt in the killing of the one-horned rhinoceros in the famed Kaziranga National Park and other places in Assam, the state government has transferred the divisional forest officer......

Rhodes scholar Krishnan studies vampires

Lakshmi Krishnan, a Wake Forest University student, has been concentrating on vampires and the imagery of blood in 19th century novels for her senior thesis. And she has been one of the most active......

Diabetes gene found

US scientists at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina have found a gene involved in the type-2 diabetes. The gene called PTPN1 (Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase N1), is......

Domestic abuse scandal: Oppn demands Chandy's resignation

The resignation of Forest Minister K B Ganesh Kumar following allegations of domestic violence had its echo in the Kerala Assembly on Tuesday where opposition Left Democratic Front demanded that......

The Wharton brouhaha: Let's get the facts on Modi right

The allegation that the chief minister of Gujarat did nothing to prevent a ‘series of orchestrated riots’ in 2001 is indeed serious. This needs some deliberation and analysis since this......

Spotted! Murthy in New Delhi

Reader Abhishek Narang sent us this image from the Wake Forest University Babcock Graduate School of Management, North Carolina.I met Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy in August 2004 at the......

Rich-poor divide comes to fore at biodiversity meet

It was a virtual throwback to the rhetoric of the North-South divide. As the delegates at the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity here struggled to arrive at an agreement on how to find......

PM tightens his grip on India's economic matters

India's economic downslide has forced Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to encroach into the domain of Petroleum Minister S Jaipal Reddy and Industries and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma in the last......

Hit by short supply, 'black diamond' fails to dazzle sector

For the coal sector, the year 2011 started with a bang amid rosy announcements to augment 'black diamond' production by removing all bottlenecks, but it ended with a whimper.Against a widening 142......

Work at Posco site suspended for the third day

Work at the proposed Posco steel project site in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district was suspended for the third consecutive day on Monday due to protests by villagers over felling of trees."We will......

Grammy's to feature MJ 3D film

This year's Grammy Awards will feature a 3D film earlier supposed to be part of Michael Jackson's comeback O2 gigs.More specifically, it would have been used for the performance of Earth Song.The......

Sunderland ban fans for standing

Sunderland have taped up seats and stripped several fans of their season tickets for standing during matches as controversy grows over a law that requires many English soccer spectators to sit.......

British PM Cameron apologises for 1989 stadium disaster

British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he is "profoundly sorry" for failures and cover-ups in the wake of the 1989 Hillsborough soccer disaster in which 96 spectators died after a......

I felt disconnected with IPL: Oram

Back from the Indian Premier League after playing just two matches, New Zealand all-rounder Jacob Oram says he felt disconnected with the event as the "after-match parties, Bollywood stars and......

Tiger Woods' niece wins ACC individual golf title

The golf leaderboard saw the name Woods' after a long time on Sunday, when Tiger Woods' niece grabbed her first ACC women''s individual title, after finishing a career-best 5-under par.She is the......

Torres the target as Liverpool fans exalt in win

Barracked by his former fans and wasteful in front of goal, new Chelsea striker Fernando Torres endured a forgettable debut on Sunday as his old club Liverpool had the last laugh with a 1-0 win at......

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Q. Why our Forest and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh wakes up so late ?He had ordered to stop Vedanta/Cairn Deal,Closure of Styerilite Copper Smelting Plant at Tuticurin aftre 10 years then Lavasa and now demolition order for Aadarsh Housing ! Can't they reclaim and distribute the same to Kargil War Widows ?Is it environment or politics ??
: A. PURE politics more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/why-our-forest-and-environment-minister-jairam-ramesh-wakes-//answers/18941441

Q. Just to remind if you care; last year on my tracking to Pachmari i saw cave paintings in caves of Hastachal parvat and Draupadi deep which has paintings of Barah Singa a kind of antelope which is now found only in Kanha reserve forests and only 300 are left which is again a Govt record it shows that around 10,000 years ago there were these antelopes in Pachmari and now no Barah Singa is found there when will we wake up to save our animal heritage ?
SriniVenkat: A. too late already more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/just-to-remind-if-you-care-last-year-on-my-tracking-to-pachm/18941375/answers/18858609

Q. Once forests covered about 50% of the land area. Now it is reduced to 30%. If further destruction of forests is not prevented the consequences will be disastrous. Can t the international community do something towards this? Your views?
Gaurav Vyas: A. 1)Well, I understand that the world community is fully aware of the adverse impact of the depleting forest covers world over. 2)In fact, it is a...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/once-forests-covered-about-50-of-the-land-area.-now-it-is-re/18858595/answers/17573219

Q. CURRENT AFFAIRS ..Is the bloodbath at Dantewada a wake-up call ? Will Military Move in there ? Is There any other Solution ?
Good Citizen: A. Could the massacre of the 75 jawans at Dantewada been avoided? Was the state prepared for a strategic counter-offensive such as this by the...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/current-affairs-..is-the-bloodbath-at-dantewada-a-wake-up-ca/17569381/answers/16876801

Q. Does life become more stressful and boring as one grows older.
Commonsense: A. No it has become less stressful now. My child is no longer a child now. No homework to supervise , no project to help , no worrying about school...... more

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Wake-up call to save Saranda

Environmentalists and NGOs stressed on the need to conserve the biodiversity of Saranda forest, known to be Asias largest sal reserve, at a... ...

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New Delhi: In a bid to bolster infrastructure growth, investment in road construction in rural areas saw a ten-fold jump under the UPA regime,... ...

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Project Management Professional (PMP) Boot Camp to Be Held in the Queen City this July Hosted by PM Council, Inc

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Oxygen Biotherapeutics Names Col. Charles L. Pamplin III, M.D., Chief Medical Officer

pan>)--Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. (OBI) (NASDAQ: OXBT), today announced Col. (ret.) Charles L. Pamplin III, M.D., was appointed to the position... ...

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Discarded Kidneys Can Be Used to Generate New Kidneys for Transplantation - Dawn of a New Era in Regenerative Medicine Research

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in the USA found that human kidneys discarded for transplant can potentially serve as a natural... ...

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