Indian Botanical Garden renamed

October 11th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Chandigarh will soon set up treetop meditation huts in the serene environs of the Botanical Garden - a unique place for relaxation away from the busy city life - in this union territory. These huts will be a part of Nature Interpretation Centre coming up at the Botanical Garden here in Sarangpur village.

September 20th, 2009 KOLKATA - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday announced here that her ministry would take an initiative to upgrade the existing South Eastern Railway (SER) Hospital into a well-equipped medical college. "The SER Hospital will be developed with all modern facilities and it will soon be converted into a medical college.

September 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Indian Navy, which has been assigned the overall responsibility of maritime security, including coastal and offshore defence after the Mumbai attacks, today inducted two water jet propelled fast attack craft (WJFACs) in order to boost its surveillance capacity. The safe operability of the new WJFACs in shallow waters and at high speeds, and their day-night surveillance capability coupled with enhanced fire power is expected to give a tremendous boost to combating such asymmetric threats emanating from the sea and further enhance the coastal security.

September 6th, 2009 Endangered Sumatran rhino dies at Cincinnati ZooCINCINNATI — An endangered Sumatran rhino has died at the Cincinnati Zoo, a setback to a program that successfully produced the first calves born in captivity in more than a century. Emi, a 21-year-old Sumatran rhino that had been at the zoo for 14 years, died Saturday after appearing less energetic for several weeks, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden announced Sunday.

August 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday inaugurated the much-awaited six-kilometre expanded stretch of the city's Metro railway from Tollygunge to Garia bazaar in the southern fringes. "Metro railway is the pride of the city.

July 22nd, 2009 BANGALORE - Compromising on their daily dose of sleep, hundreds of Bangaloreans woke up early morning to witness the century's longest solar eclipse Wednesday, but clouds played spoilsport during their much awaited adventure. Around 200 scientists, research scholars and other people gathered at the Lalbagh Botanical Garden at 5.30 a.m.

July 9th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Zakir Hussain Rose Garden here, which the union territory administration says is Asia's largest rose garden, will soon have a new, refurbished look with new varieties of flowers and more amenities to attract tourists, officials said. The Chandigarh administration has prepared an exhaustive roadmap to upgrade the garden, to attract more foreign and domestic tourists.

July 8th, 2009 Ohio woman accused of fawn's shovel beating deathEUCLID, Ohio — An Ohio woman who found a fawn in her flower garden has been accused of beating it to death with a shovel. Seventy-five-year-old Dorothy Richardson is charged in a warrant with animal cruelty at her Euclid home near the Cleveland Metroparks Euclid Creek Reservation, a wooded park where deer, foxes and other wildlife roam.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government will raise the the allocation for cleaning India's rivers and lakes to Rs.562 crore ($110 million) in fiscal 2009-10 from Rs.335 crore last fiscal, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced Monday while presenting the union budget in parliament. Mentioning that the government had unveiled its National Action Plan on Climate Change last year and that eight national missions under it were being finalised, Mukherjee committed that the government would provide "necessary funds" for all the missions.

June 5th, 2009 BANGALORE - What is Bangalore without its gigantic trees and chirping birds hopping from one branch to another? Answering the question raised by almost all Bangaloreans on World Environment Day Friday, noted ornithologist M.B. Krishna said the city would be dead without its two most vital components.

June 4th, 2009 BANGALORE - Once known as Garden City, Bangalore has witnessed rampant loss of greenery in the name of development. On World Environment Day Friday, Bangaloreans will make an attempt to reclaim its "green heritage".

April 29th, 2009 New York is new home of sequoia tree from OregonNEW YORK — As such trees go it's short and stocky — only 20 feet tall and 18 inches wide at the base, but come back in 200 years and it may be taller than most of the buildings on Manhattan's upper west side. It's a giant sequoia tree, trucked all the way from Oregon by the city's Parks Department, and put into the ground at Morningside Park on Tuesday.

April 24th, 2009 Home Depot garden center becomes young owl's homeHARRISON, Ark. — A Home Depot in northern Arkansas has someone new looking out for mice in the garden center.

April 23rd, 2009 Who's there: Owl lives in Ark. Home DepotHARRISON, Ark.

March 23rd, 2009 KOLKATA - The death of a IIT-Kharagpur student, allegedly due to medical negligence, triggered tension with students damaging the director's bungalow and vehicles parked outside, the police said. In the evening, director Damodar Acharya in presence of the agitating students wrote a letter offering to resign.