Sci&Tech, Medical and Envirnoment:

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan "Venky", the renowned Indian-American scientist whose path-breaking work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is to be knighted with two other foreign-born Nobel Laureates, Professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of Russia.
Foreigners are rarely knighted and cannot officially use the title “Sir”.
He was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 2010.

Seeking to consolidate its core business and make it more efficient, state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has decided to establish a countrywide LPG pipeline grid to reduce the supply chain cost of transporting LPG.
It have laid a pipeline from Tikri Kalan to Bhatinda but we are now in the process of building a pipeline from Kandla to Loni.
There is already a pipeline of GAIL in place and discussions are on whether it could use their facility or have to build another pipeline for transportation of LPG
The aim is that wherever IOC has high consumption, plan should be drawn up to lay pipeline to transport LPG.
Indian Oil and its subsidiaries account for a 47 per cent share in the petroleum products market, 34 per cent in refining capacity and 67 per cent in downstream sector pipelines capacity.
It is also in the process of setting up a 5 million tonne LNG terminal at Ennore in Tamil Nadu

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU), Hisar, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Seeds Corporation (NSC), the Union Ministry of Agriculture for production and marketing of bajra, maize and other crop hybrids or varieties developed by it.
The NSC has been granted non-exclusive license for strengthening of the seed production
This is a landmark step taken by CCSHAU and NSC which will go a long way in enhancing the availability of good quality seed to the farmers at affordable prices at national level

One could visualise the return of the good days for Sariska as early this past week villagers in the neighbourhood of the park -- which had lost all tigers in the wild some five years back to alleged poaching -- inspired by Waterman Rajendra Singh started a 19-day padyatra committing themselves to protection of this precious island of bio-diversity towards which the metropolis of Delhi is stretching its hands greedily!
It was, in fact, Mr. Rajendra Singh, who was awarded a Magsaysay in 2001 for making dead rivers flow in the arid terrains of Alwar, and his organisation Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), that had fought the mining lobby in the 1990s and kept a watch on the poachers.