Vishal Sharma / Agra December 29, 2008, 0:00 IST Govardhan Udyog plans to use cowdung to produce particle board. Faced with the task of developing environment-friendly technology for industry due to guidelines issued by the Supreme Court, entrepreneurs in Agra are realising the cost-effective potential of such technologies and innovations. Govardhan Udyog is one such unit which plans to use a non-conventional raw material, cowdung, to produce particle board and pharmaceutical products. The unit was inaugurated this week on the Agra-Delhi national highway near the Mathura refinery, about 55 km from Agra. Company sources said the basic raw material used in the manufacture of particle board will be cow dung. This will perhaps make it the first particle board manufacturing facility using cowdung as the raw material. Govardhan Udyog Managing Director SK Mittal said particle boards were emerging as a viable alternative in designing office furniture and automation products in the country as c...
VISHAL SHARMA AGRA, 11 MAY. The management & business dispute in the family run Agra based Amar Ujala group of publications has begun to draw attention of the UP government which has become concerned over the growing differences in this major newspaper & publication group of the state. The UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav openly expressed his concern over this dispute while talking to the Group Chairman Ashok Agarwal in Agra during his visit, suggesting that the group settle its disputes soon to save this prestigious newspaper brand of the state from splitting and he was also prepared to mediate for the peaceful resolution of this dispute if the group wishes so. The dispute in the management of this group had come out in the open recently after Ajay Agarwal, the editor and 35 percent share holder in the group had alleged before the Company Law Board (CLB) that he had been removed from the post of Agra edition editor and his financial ...
VIJAY UPADHYAY ETAWAH/BHIND. For 30 years, he ruled the Chambal with a steady hand but weakened by age and continually dogged by the police, Nirbhay Gujjar, the last remaining edifice of the old stock of bandits from India’s own “Wild-Wild West”, may have at last taken a peaceful retirement in the Himalayas, that he was vying for a long time. Reports filtering in from the Chambal ravines of Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh and the adjoining Bhind of Madhya Pradesh indicate that this most feared bandit of Chambal has finally given up the ghost, following the rising waters of the river and the depleting strength of his gang due to regular encounters by the police of these two states. According to the residents of the villages of Etawah, Bhind & Kalpi, Jaloun districts, Nirbhay has not been seen in these parts for quite some time and his regular contacts in the villages are no longer active. The gang has even gone untraceable on the electronic surveillance net of the police. Sources ...
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