Lahore, Sept 16 : Pakistan has decided to claim compensation from India for the agriculture losses it suffered due to the stoppage of water flow by India into the Chenab River.
Pakistan’s Indus Water Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah reportedly alleged that India had stopped Pakistan’s 200,000 acre-feet water from August 1 to September 12 to fill its Baglihar Dam lake in Kashmir.
He added that data relating to the previous record of water flow in Chenab had been provided to NESPAK (National Engineering Services Pakistan) to ascertain the loss arising out of the stoppage.
New Delhi, Sept 16 : President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday said that an institutional mechanism is needed to seamlessly share intelligence on real-time basis to foil the attempts of terrorists and naxalites.
Mumbai, Sep. 16 : A Worli-based social organisation in Mumbai, has given a clarion call asking its members to avoid wearing traditional wrap around, locally called "Lungi" and instead start wearing pants.
The main contention stated behind the step is to motivate organisation''s members who are from Uttar Pradesh to wear pants so that local authorities take them seriously
"Lungi Choro, Pant Pehno" (Give up wrap around, wear pants) campaign is being carried out here by Mohammed Abdul Hamid Yuva Pratishthan (MAHYP), the social organisation.
Washington, September 16: A team of Indian scientists have explained how carbon nanotubes could replace conventional materials in water-purification systems, which could be the answer to ensuring a safe supply of drinking water for regions of the world stricken by periodic drought or where water contamination is rife.
At present, more than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation, nearly all of them in the developing countries.
New Delhi - Indian shares dipped sharply for a second day Tuesday following global cues.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share Sensex was trading 2.5 per cent lower than Monday's close about two hours after opening while the broader 50-share Nifty of the National Stock Exchange registered a 2.6 per cent dip.
Analysts predicted the upheaval in global markets due to the continued credit crisis in the United States, with events like bankruptcy of investment bank Lehman Brothers, would bring further turmoil in the Indian share market.
New Delhi, Sept 16: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Anbumani Ramadoss will inaugurate a two-day regional workshop on illicit trade in tobacco products here today.
The workshop is being jointly organised by the WHO-South East Asia Regional Office (SEARO) and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The workshop will be attended by delegates from SEAR countries - Bangladesh, Burma, Bhutan, China, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timur-leste.
Lahore, Sept 16 : Pakistan has decided to claim compensation from India for the agriculture losses it suffered due to the stoppage of water flow by India into the Chenab River.
President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday said that an institutional mechanism is needed to seamlessly share intelligence on real-time basis to foil the attempts of terrorists and naxalites.
Washington, September 16: A team of Indian scientists have explained how carbon nanotubes could replace conventional materials in water-purification systems, which could be the answer to ensuring a safe supply of drinking water for regions of the world stricken by periodic drought or where water contamination is rife. 
New Delhi - Indian shares dipped sharply for a second day Tuesday following global cues.
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Anbumani Ramadoss will inaugurate a two-day regional workshop on illicit trade in tobacco products here today.
