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Govt announces projects in Maoist areas
New Delhi: The Union Government on Friday announced creation of six projects in Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) covering around 60 Maoist-affected districts in the country to improve the livelihood options of the tribal people, who fall prey to extremist ideas owing to crushing poverty.The projects to be executed within six months will be in the Public Private Partnership mode and will cover the states

The culture vultures

At one of the writing courses I took at Stanford some years ago, I found myself sandwiched between a white-haired Holocaust survivor, whose short story glowed with a gentle luminescence and whose

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19-year-old dies in fall from Park City chairlift

A University of Utah student suffered a seizure before she fell from a chairlift at a Park City ski resort and died in an extremely rare case of a fatality on a properly functioning lift,

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Vt.'s long-closed Haystack ski area reopens
A long-closed Vermont ski area is operating again and in the process of becoming a members-only resort.

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Nod for commercial use

The Haryana government will allow use of plots for non-industrial purposes in industrial areas that had been developed prior to the enactment of Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas

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MoEF nod for NTPC's Kudgi project

The Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has accorded environmental clearance for the Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project Stage-I (3x800 Mw) of NTPC, which is being set up in Bijapur district

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