Amritsar’s Khanna Paper Mills, the largest user of paper waste in country

July 23rd, 2009 KORAPUT - Tribal women in Koraput district of Orissa are engaging in the art of making toys from paper pulp, which helps them to make a living. Thanks to a self-help group that trained them in the art.

July 11th, 2009 ON BOARD SPECIAL FLIGHT - Commenting on Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's decision to bring out a white paper on the expenses of the ministry during her predecessor Lalu Prasad's tenure, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that white paper will uncover the reality and after that loose ends will be figured out.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury on Sunday supported Bharatiya Janata Party concerns over the unreliability of the Electronic Voting Machines, (EVMs). Yechury told reporters in the national capital on Sunday that if the need be, the country should revert back to ballot paper, so that the records could be maintained.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Accusing Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on doing nothing new in the rail budget, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Friday said that she had used his achievements in the ministry to build her case. "Is this a budget? She has just read out what I had announced during my stint...She suffers from a complex," he said.

May 9th, 2009 LONDON - Varun Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Lok Sabha candidate for Pilibhit, says he wants to revive his late father's controversial population control policies, a British newspaper reported Saturday. The Daily Telegraph said Gandhi, the son of Sanjay Gandhi and grandson of late prime minister Indira Gandhi, had told the paper in an interview that he also wanted to introduce conscription in India in order to unite the country.

May 9th, 2009 LONDON - Varun Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Lok Sabha candidate for Pilibhit, says he wants to revive his late father's controversial population control policies, a British newspaper reported Saturday. The Daily Telegraph said Gandhi, the son of Sanjay Gandhi and grandson of late prime minister Indira Gandhi, had told the paper in an interview that he also wanted to introduce conscription in India in order to unite the country.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Scamster Abdul Karim Telgi and nine others were Thursday convicted in yet another multi-million rupee fake stamp paper case by a court here. Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Bansal pronounced the conviction.

March 29th, 2009 LEH - A group of disabled people in Ladakh displayed their creative talents by turning waste material into useful products of daily use. More then 200 disabled people are involved in turning waste into craft, thanks to the initiative of People's Action Group for Inclusion and Rights (PAGIR), a voluntary organisation.

March 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Students of Class 12 of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Saturday were not satisfied with the mathematics paper. Many found it easy but lengthy.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Did you know that the use of electronic voting machines, or EVMs, results in the saving of nearly 10,000 tonnes of paper that in turn preserves forests where trees are cut down to produce paper? About 7,700 tonnes of paper was used for printing of ballot papers in the 1999 general elections, whereas 8,800 tonnes of paper was used for the purpose in the 1996 general elections. With the electorate going up steadily, more than 10,000 tonnes of paper would have to be used for this general election if there had been no EVMs.

March 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Thousands of students sat for their Class 10 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) maths exam in centres across the country and abroad Saturday. Many found the paper 'tough' while others felt the questions were 'indirect'.

March 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hundreds of thousands of students sat for the class 10 and 12 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams in centres across the country and abroad Monday and many of them said they found the paper 'easy' and 'doable'. Many students, at a exam centre here, walked out with a smile on their faces and hugged their parents and teachers.

February 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Students appearing for the class 10 mathematics examination in Haryana were taken aback Tuesday when they were given a semester I question paper instead of the semester II paper they were expecting. Students at various centres of the Haryana School Education Board were given the wrong question paper, a board official said.

February 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh police has arrested 110 people for the leakage of the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) examination paper, police officials here said Sunday. While 16 of them were arrested for organising the scam, the other 94 were candidates who were to take the examinations.

February 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - Four people died Friday while cleaning up a gas chamber at an abandoned paper mill in Kolkata's neighbouring district Hooghly, the police said. 'Four workers died late Friday evening when they were cleaning up a gas chamber at an abandoned paper mill at Dankuni in Hooghly district,' Hooghly district police superintendent Rajiv Mishra told IANS.