First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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एसयूवी को सस्ता करने से शहर में बढ़ेगा पॉल्यूशन : सीएसई
सभी सेगमेंट के वीइकल में टैक्स छूट के प्रपोजल का सेंटर फॉर साइंस एंड एनवायरनमेंट ने पुरजोर विरोध किया है। एयर पॉल्यूशन की समस्या से जूझ रही राजधानी और देश के दूसरे शहर इस फैसले का शिकार होंगे। बीते साल
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Cut in excise duty on SUVs bad news for environment: CSE
6% reduction in duty makes the gas-guzzling vehicles cheaper Environmental gains made over the past year seem to have gone up in smoke with the announcement of a cut in excise duty on sports utility vehicles (SUVs), the Centre for Science and Environment said on Monday.
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SUV, car tax cut gets flak from green lobby
Environmentalists have slammed finance minister P. Chidambaram’s decision to cut taxes on cars, with the fuel-guzzling SUVs enjoying the biggest slash. Not only will this trigger an increased deiselisation
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Environmentalists criticise FM for making diesel-guzzler SUVs cheaper
Environmentalists on Monday criticized finance minister P Chidambaram for his budget proposal to cut taxes on cars — specifically the high-polluting diesel guzzler SUVs — and said the government was more
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Health fears over car ride
The budget proposal to “give relief” to the automobile sector by cutting excise duties on several segments of cars, including SUVs, could worsen air quality and hurt people’s health, environmental scientists
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After 2 yrs, no progress on Delhi’s pollution action plan
Departments Sit On Draft While Air Quality Gets As Bad As Beijing’s; No Check On Emissions There is now mounting evidence that Delhi’s air quality is comparable to, if not worse than, Beijing’s notoriously poor air quality. But, the second-generation action plan for Delhi’s pollution-—drafted to deal with the deteriorating air quality after CNG introduction—doesn’t seem to have been finalized almost two years after it was prepared. All the government departments are still to give their response, and seem to be in no hurry to finalize the plan.
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Don't let mining Bill lapse, CSE urges Centre
A green advocacy organisation today attacked the Centre for not pushing the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill in the ongoing Parliament session, saying that the failure to pass it would
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Impose 30% cess on diesel cars, panel asks SC
New Delhi: Senior advocate Harish Salve startled the Supreme Court on Monday by presenting a report which established a direct link between death of 3,000 children annually in Delhi to the increased pollution
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A burning question
This refers to Sunita Narain's column "The politics of particles" (Down to Earth, February 10). The government should take steps to provide LPG in rural areas at subsidised rates. The rural population
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The politics of particles
Chulhas - cook stoves of poor women who collect sticks, twigs, leaves and every other biomass material they can find to cook meals - are today at the centre of failing international action. The concern