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...
AGRA. It could serve as a well-placed slap in the face of the the groups of so-called women's rights activists who all too recently celebrated International Women’s Day, fervently praising the contribution made by women to the society and vowing to prevent violence against the feminine gender comfortably ensconced in luxurious clubs and hotels. While the world was busy celebrating women’s day, a young girl was murdered in cold-blood, torched to death by her in-laws in Kayamganj town of Farrukhabad district of Uttar Pradesh, alongwith a 6-month fetus inside her, just three years after marriage. Two weeks have passed since the grisly murder but the local police appears to be in no hurry to catch the absconding in-laws who doused the girl in kerosene and left her to burn and die on the street, making good their escape while the locals awaited for the police to arrive. Meanwhile, the victim’s mother Archana Sharma has suffered from a strok...
Vijay Upadhyay Agra. When some youngsters went looking for a chance to throw away their virginity on the lines of the comedy flick American Pie, in the red-light area of Agra, hardly had they realised that in search of sex as cheap as a pack of good-quality condoms, they were walking into a sex-trade racket involving the abduction and exploitation of Nepalese girls which has now landed them in jail. Three youngsters and four prostitutes were picked up on Thursday by the Agra police in the Kashmiri Bazar area of the town for engaging in flesh-trade but when interrogated by the police, the youngsters revealed a shocking story of Nepalese girls being thrown into a sex racket operational in the town. While the prostitutes were sent to a women's home, the youngsters have been put behind bars. According to the boys, Sonu, Dheeraj and Yogesh, all aged around 20-22 years, they had planned to throw away their virginity together in the new year a...
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