Dispur has moved the Centre through the DoNER ministry for setting up a centre to collect hydrological data with German help to ensure effective planning and execution of anti-flood and erosion projects in the state. State water resources minister Rajiv Lochan Pegu disclosed this to The Telegraph on the sidelines of a daylong seminar on low-cost technology for mitigation of flood and riverbank erosion of the river Brahmaputra at the secretariat.

Disagrees With Centre That Drying Up Is Seasonal. Arunachal Pradesh is seeking facts from the Centre regarding the drying up of the river Siang, which originates in Tibet and is one of the main tributaries of the Brahmaputra. Arunachal Pradesh suspects that diversion of the river in its upper reaches in China could be the reason for the drying up downstream.

Islamabad—Climate change is a rising threat to all nations of the world including Pakistan and India. But without positive will and change of mindset there is little possibility for a positive progress. Experts, at a seminar on Monday, agreed that strategic interest, military ambition and absence of data are the major causes that threaten this part of the world as a result of global climate change.

GUWAHATI, July 27 – Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan, who is also the Secretary, Union Department of Space, said today that the ISRO has been extending support to the remote sensing centres of the States.

Dr Radhakrishnan, who was talking to this correspondent during his short visit to the Assam Science Technology and Environment Council (ASTEC) here this afternoon, also said that the North East Space Application Centre (NESAC) of the ISRO has been coordinating with the remote sensing centres of the NE States.

The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, would launch a portal exclusive for rice on Saturday.

The Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate and renowned environment expert Dr. R.K. Pachauri would arrive in Bhopal on June 30.

Dr. Pachauri would arrive here at 11 am. The Director General of EPCO and Principal Secretary, Housing and Environment Iqbal Singh Bains would give a brief presentation about State Action Plan on Climate Change before Dr.

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has set up a 'virtual' nuclear data physics centre to enable greater visibility of India's research in this area at the global platform.

Department of atomic energy and Board of Research in Nuclear Science of the government of India have already sanctioned funds for three years (2011-2014) for the NDPCI, S Ganesan, head of nuclear data section, reactor physics desi

IT is the massive destruction caused by the recent accident -caused by an earthquake and tsunami of unsurpassed and unanticipated magnitude -at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan that provided the primary level of education on various aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear technology for most Indians, rather than a home-grown programme of information dissemination about nuclear issues by th

India on Thursday called for enhanced economic cooperation with Uruguay in sectors such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals, textiles, automobiles, machineries and IT to enhance bilateral trade.

In 2009-10, the two-way commerce between both countries stood at $64.37 million.

Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, who met visiting Uruguay Industry, Energy and Mining Minister Roberto K