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Landsat Said Goodbye to a 26-Year Mission, but Its Record of Earth Tells a Bigger StoryLandsat 7, after 25 years, has retired, concluding a mission that provided an invaluable, consistent visual record of Earth. Its images hav...- Drop proposal for hydrocarbon exploration, offshore mining in Gulf of Mannar: TN CM Stalin urges CentreTamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin urged PM Narendra Modi to drop the Centre's proposal for hydrocarbon exploration and offshore mining i...
- The environmental disaster lurking inside your chocolate barThe African nations, home to most of the world's cocoa, now wants more compensation for their impoverished farmers.
- Oil Palm Not at Cost of BiodiversityOil palm is land-use efficient, yielding 3-4 tonnes per hectare, compared to 1 tonne per hectare for other oilseeds. A plan to increase acr...
- Fierce, frequent, climate-fueled wildfires may decimate forests worldwideClimate change has made landscape-changing wildfires a concern worldwide. This year, record fires have also raged in Australia, Argentina a...
- How India’s politics has changed over the last five yearsDemocracy is an evolution towards expanding rights, but India has been regressing.
- Best way to beat pollution? Let every city get a ‘Central Park’To offset the adverse effects of pollution and overpopulation, similar forms of extreme opposites need to be practised in Indian cities.
- No protection to 63% of Western Ghats is perilousThe central government's in principle acceptance of the Kasturirangan report on Western Ghats, which will exclude 63% of the area from cons...
- Guar gum exports halve on low demand by oil companiesFarmers prefer guar cultivation as it offers better returns than cotton & soya despite price swings
- JK Paper to pick up equity stake in Myanmar Pulp MillJK Paper is set to pick up an equity stake in Myanmar's largest state-owned pulp mill as part of a global public-private-participation deal.
- Pranab Mukherjee okays Ashok Chawla recommendations on transparent market pricing for natural gasA repository that would have data on all oil assets held by both national and private companies will also be created.
- Guargum industry gets robust export ordersThe industry has now put forward a proposal to the commerce ministry for increasing acreage in Rajasthan, Haryana and Gujarat.
- Cairn-Vedanta deal to be finalised by March 2011: GovtCairn Energy agreed in August to sell a stake of 40 to 51 percent in its Indian arm to Vedanta in a deal worth upto $9.6 billion.
- Vedanta expects to seal $9.6 bn deal for Cairn India soonMetals Czar and Chairman of Vedanta Resources Plc Anil Agarwal said his company hopes to complete the deal with Cairn India soon.
- Coal India IPO covered 0.11 times in first hour: ExchangesLarge IPOs in India typically see the heaviest subscription towards the close of the offering. Coal India's IPO closes on Thursday for reta...
- Coal India IPO hits markets today; to mop-up Rs 15,000 croreBilled as Corporate India's biggest IPO, the issue with a price band of Rs 225-245 is set to beat Rs 11,700-cr offering from Reliance Power...
- Oil India seeks extension of expired PELs for 15 blocksAhead of its public issue that opens tomorrow, Oil India Ltd has pressed for extension of its expired Petroleum Exploration Licenses (PEL) ...
- Vietnam grows larger summer rice cropWinter-spring prices have soared 90 per cent in the past year in the Mekong Delta food basket
- Agri biotech on fast track in IndiaRiding on the success of Bt cotton, agriculture biotechnology has emerged as one of the fastest growing biotech industries in India in rece...
- Farmers may up sugarcane acreageIndian farmers are likely to increase the acreages of sugarcane and pulses at the cost of oilseeds area.
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