Amarnath yatra is going green

  Super 30 helps the poor and students to crack IIT-JEE

The visit of Sri Lanka President Rajapake, the reconstitution of groups  of ministers the look into the Bhopal gas tragedy, the growing suspicion at Goa's Ex-Minister Mickky Pacheco in a murder case dominate headlines today

.The Hindu carries a lovely picture of Union Human Resource Development Minister, Kapil Sibal with "Super 30 Initiative founders, Anand Kumar in Delhi". Super 30 helps the poor and students to crack IIT-JEE the " A pat from minister' is the apt title.

The Brahmaputra river is an extremely dynamic river, running for 750 km from east to west across Assam valley. It has about 40 tributaries which during monsoon swell up and cause massive sand deposition, land erosion and flood . The Pioneer say that Now a German and an Indian scientist are working on.  a study on the dynamics bf Brahmaputra.

Now even the Amarnath yatra is going green. This time, the use of plastic material will be prohibited during the yatra and even Shredders will be installed at the base camp. Says a report in the Tribune.

Now what do you do with elephants who play havoc around. Well, Karnataka forest department, along with WWF have now started using radio collers fitted with global positionning  system on these elephants. Due to shrinking forest, they are now straying with agriculture field & destroying crops - that's a report in The Pioneer.

In yet another,  menace  of the rich mixing drinking and driving in New Delhi a Cheverlet Optra Car ran over 6 persons in New Rajinder nagar last night at 9.30 pm - This is the 5th such incident in the capital in the last 1 month.

Indian handicrafts are popular all over the world. Now at the click of a button, you can see about 25,000 products developed in craft clusters. Log on to http://craft clusters       of India.in, you can also see more on needle craft, natural fiber craft, tribal crafts etc. at another website - http:// theme crafts.in, which shows 21,000 products. That's a report in Pioneer.