The Conference of Parties (COP 11) to the global Biodiversity Convention (CBD) starting here Monday would make the name of its host city a part of yet another call for restoration of natural ecosystem.

Call for restoration of ecosystem to get Hyd tag

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With the controversy over Maharashtra irrigation projects simmerings, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has ordered a departmental probe against 45 officials of Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC), who were indicted by a panel in 2010 for irregularities. The departmental inquiry had been pending for two years following the Vadnere committee report.

Probe ordered against VIDC officials: Chavan

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Intense protests over release of water to Tamil Nadu continued to sweep Cauvery river basin areas for the eighth day as Karnataka hoped for a &ldquo;positive response&rdquo; from the Supreme Court tomorrow on its plea for reconsideration of the September 28 order.

Cauvery row: All eyes on SC hearing today

The ongoing enquiry into illegal mining in Odisha by the members of Shah Commission may get an extension due to huge pile of files and some complexity detected in the mining lease papers.

Illegal mining enquiry may get extended

Despite the governments agreeing to set the world on a course to help prevent species extinction, many have failed to deliver on the promises and commitments made at Nagoya in Japan two years ago, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International said on Sunday.

'Govts failed to keep Nagoya Pact'

The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT), Mumbai, has dismissed an appeal by four directors of Pyramid Saimira Theatre against the order of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) restricting their market access and imposing penalties for violation of Sebi laws.

Tribunal upholds Sebi order on Pyramid Saimira directors

The West Bengal government plans to earn around Rs 700 crore a year more through organisational restructuring of the excise and registration of stamp duties departments, State Finance Minister Amit Mitra said.

WB to earn Rs 700 cr more from excise, stamp duty departments

Britishers had envisaged some 100 years ago that a dam that they were building would flow a new phase of development in Chhattisgarh. And literally, it came true.

Tandula dam facilitating economic growth for centuries

President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the newly constructed Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belgaum on Thursday (Oct 11). Bowing to public demand, the government has decided to name Suvarna Soudha as Suvarna Vidhana Soudha, said KG Bopaiah, Speaker, legislative assembly.

President to inaugurate Suvarna Vidhana Soudha

State government is trying the old carrot and stick rule with small and medium investors. It has decided to provide land to these investors. However, in return government is asking them to start production as soon as possible.

Bihar govt asks SME investors to step up production

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in its latest report (agriculture wing), for the year ended March 31, 2011, has slammed the state agriculture department for non compliance with the financial and treasury rules.

CAG pulls up govt for financial rules violation

Highlighting the &ldquo;grim&rdquo; situation in Cauvery basin, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop further release of water to Tamil Nadu and to seek a report from the team that has been deputed to assess the water situation.

Krishna urges PM to stop release of water to TN

In order to minimize the long-standing grievances of the consumers against the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB), the state&rsquo;s power board has decided to handover its maintenance and billing segments of the state capital (Ranchi) and the steel city (Jamshedpur) to Calcutta-based CESC Limited and Tata Power from November this year.

JSEB hands over maintenance and billing operations to CESC, Tata Power

After a series of day-long protest marches and a total bundh yesterday, Mysore saw only a few demonstrations on Sunday.

KSRTC bus damaged in Mysore

The Punjab government&rsquo;s ambitious plan to bring down this financial year&rsquo;s revenue deficit to Rs 3,123.31 crore from last year&rsquo;s Rs 5,584.38 crore seems to be Herculean task. The state&rsquo;s revenue deficit has already touched Rs 1,347 crore in the first four months of the current financial year, compared to Rs 1,111 crore during the corresponding period of last year.

Punjab faces uphill task to meet revenue deficit target

Some activists belonging to pro-Kannada outfits were on Monday taken into preventive custody here when they staged protests against the Supreme Court adjourning to October 12 the plea filed by Karnataka on the Cauvery water issue.

Cauvery row: Protests against adjournment

The Gujarat High Court has held that the Central pre-Metric scholarship scheme for students from minority community was violative of provisions of the Constitution of India, that prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion.

Educational scholarship based on religion violates constitution: HC

The department on Saturday had decided to bring such leases back to the fold of the state government against the backdrop of an ongoing probe into alleged large scale illegal mining activities in the state by the visiting M B Shah commission of enquiry.

Nine private miners may lose their leases

The Bombay High Court will next week hear a PIL filed by a social activist seeking CBI probe against bureaucrats of Maharashtra Water Resources Department and Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation in connection with the multi-crore irrigation scam. Activist Pravin Wategaonkar in his petition has alleged criminal conspiracy and misconduct on the part of public servants and sought CBI to probe all projects where cost escalations of Rs 20,000 crore were approved across three months in 2009 by the Water Resources Department (WRD).

Maha irrigation scam: HC to hear PIL seeking CBI probe on Oct 16

At a time when controversy surrounding block allocations has caught different coal bearing states in a bind, the Ministry of Coal has urged the Odisha government to submit its action taken report at the earliest in connection with illegal coal mining activities.

Coal ministry asks Odisha to expedite action taken report on illegal mining

In an effort to rope in Chinese businessmen to invest in the state, an 18 member delegation of the Utkal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) would be undertaking a 10 day visit to China beginning October 13. The visit is aimed at fostering closer ties between the business communities of the two countries.

UCCI team to visit China to promote trade relations

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