Odisha’s Rushikulya rookery is where the endangered Olive Ridley comes to dig nests and lay eggs. After last year’s no-show, the sea turtles have returned to the state’s coast this year.
The instruction came via a video conference PM Modi held with Heads of Mission on Monday at India’s embassies and consulates around the world. India’s High Commissioner to TT, Arun Sahu, participated in the internet video conference from the High Commission Office in Port of Spain at 7 am.
Hydrocarbon producer Oil India Ltd plans to spend around 8.5 bln rupees on drilling 21 development wells, constructing a production facility, and laying a pipeline in its Dibrugarh Bhogpara block in Assam, a senior official of the state-owned company told Cogencis.
Researchers say these little-studied structures, which can stretch for up to 50 meters and last for hundreds of years, could help our cities adapt to rising temperatures associated with the climate crisis.
The output pace of India’s eight major industries accelerated in February 2020 by 5.5 per cent from a rise of 1.4 per cent reported in January 2020.
India is earning a name in terms of new research across the world. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have mixed clay and limestone to create concrete that can replace cement.
The Union Home Ministry wrote to all the States and Union Territories on March 21 to “identify, screen and quarantine” 824 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members who were travelling to different parts of the country.
The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited recorded a turnover of over Rs 21,100 crore (provisional and unaudited) for the financial year ended on March 31, 2020, up from the previous years figure of Rs19,705 crore. “The company has posted a revenue growth of around seven per cent during 2019-20 for the second year consecutively, post listing as compared to 3.8 per cent during 2017-18,” the Bengaluru-headquartered defence PSU said in a statement.
State-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India’s busiest container port, handled five million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in FY20, despite of the tough fiscal year due to sluggish economic growth for most of the months and worsened lately by the outbreak of the coronavirus. JNPT, located near Mumbai, has crossed the 5 million TEU handling mark for the second year in a row.
Oil marketing companies- IOCL, BPCL and HPCL today announced an ex-gratia amount of Rs 5 lakh (US$ 7,154.09) each, as a one-time special measure, in the unfortunate case of demise of personnel like Show-room Staff, Go down-keepers, Mechanics and Delivery boys, attending duty in the LPG distributorship chain, due to the infection and impact of Covid-19.
