A R Shivakumar: The man with the answer to India's water crisis

Nikita Puri visits Sourabha, A R Shivakumar's pioneering eco-friendly home where he and his family have lived without a municipal water connection for 22 years! Drought, a killer in India's growth......

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Javadekar, Vardhan, Pokhriyal and 8 other ministers quit

Four senior Union ministers -- Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar, Harsh Vardhan, Ramesh Pokhriyal "Nishank"-- were among 12 ministers who resigned on Wednesday ahead of the cabinet reshuffle......

Yediyurappa picks 3 deputy CMs for Karnataka

In a first, Karnataka will have three deputy chief ministers as Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Monday allocated portfolios to 17 newly appointed ministerswho were inducted into the cabinet......

Cabinet rejig: Salman becomes MEA; Moily gets petroleum

Salman Khurshid was on Sunday made the external affairs minister and Veerappa Moily given petroleum portfolio as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh undertook a major reshuffle of Council of......

Climate change may cut farm income by 20-25%: Survey

India needs to spread irrigation and do so against a backdrop of rising water scarcity and depleting groundwater resources Climate change could adversely affect farmers income by up to 20-25 per......

5 tips to succeed for young IIT-ians

"Sustainable new technologies can mitigate the poverty , unemployment and backwardness in villages," believes Dr S Rajagopalan, former IIT-ian and founder of TIDE, a non-profit organisation. His......

New strategies mooted for Green Revolution II

Joint Director (Extension) Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi, Baldeo Singh delivering the keynote address at the national seminar on 'Appropriate Extension Strategies for Management......

India says no to Bt brinjal, for now

Giving in to intense opposition from NGOs and several states, the government on Tuesday put on hold commercial cultivation of genetically modified brinjal citing lack of clear consensus within the......