Environment
FAC recommends halt to POSCO project
03 Nov 2010
In its report to environment minister Jairam Ramesh, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) is reported to have recommended a halt to the POSCO project.
MoEF slaps AP in the face over Polavaram project
03 Nov 2010
Historic UNEP pact signed to protect global environment
30 Oct 2010
Delegates from 193 countries today signed a land mark environemtnal protection pact at the UN Environment Programme
World Bank launches global partnership to green government accounts
28 Oct 2010
The partnership programme will be launched in a group of six to 10 countries starting with Colombia and India.
Outrage as trophy hunter bags UK’s biggest animal
28 Oct 2010
What has especially drawn outrage is that the Emperor was callously felled close to a busy main road in Devon
HC lifts stay on sand mining in Maharashtra
27 Oct 2010
Posco panel majority insists chair is wrong
20 Oct 2010
MoEF nod for neutrino excavation in TN forest area
19 Oct 2010
The project, being jointly implemented by the atomic energy department and the TIFR, involves digging a 2-km deep hole through solid igneous rock to study sub-atomic particles. The environment ministry has cleared it subject to caveats.