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Hazardous waste seized at TN port
Customs officials have seized about 500 tonnes of hazardous waste, which arrived at Tuticorin port in Tamil Nadu from Greece and Reunion Island, a territory controlled by Greece and France.
- Date:
- 08/03/2010
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Food Inflation: Contingent and structural factors
Food prices in the immediate future can be controlled only through large imports. Wheat stocks are adequate but rice stocks are not. There will be a fiscal cost because global prices are above domestic prices, but this will not be above 1 per cent of central government expenditure. This may be the best option since food inflation is now threatening to become generalised.
- Date:
- Mar 2010
- Source:
- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 45 Issue: 10 pp: 16-19
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Govt planning to streamline food imports
THE government is about to check the rampant import of food items flooding the market with a comprehensive set of rules that will trigger a recall of foods in case of contamination and issue alerts and warnings on dubious ingredients.
- Date:
- 25/02/2010
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Aam Aadmi or Khaas Aadmi?
The skyrocketing prices of food expose the aam aadmi pretentions of the government. (Editorial)
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 45 Issue: 8 pp: 7-8
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Hike in coal import looms
Calcutta, Feb. 11: India may have to import more coal in 2011-12 as domestic production could fall well short of the target.
The gap between demand and domestic production is expected to increase to 81 million tonnes (mt) in 2011-12 compared with the initial projection of 51mt. Domestic production, estimated at 681mt in 2011-12, may come down to 630mt.
- Date:
- 12/02/2010
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- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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Uranium pinch: Only 3 of 17 N-plants running full tilt
MUMBAI: Owing to a critical shortage of indigenously produced uranium, only three of India's 17 nuclear reactors are working to their full potential. Data available with TOI shows 11 nuclear reactors were not functioning up to the mark and three others remained completely shut down for long-term maintenance till November 2009.
- Date:
- 11/02/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Stop sugar to alcohol and chocolate firms
Mumbai: The fight over price rise seems to be getting shriller by the day. The Congress, angry at Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar’s inaction on the issue, has finally decided to approach prime minister Manmohan Singh.
- Date:
- 10/02/2010
- Source:
- Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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Imports mean UK emissions are up not down
The UK government is sitting on a report that shows its emissions rose by 13.5 per cent between 1992 and 2004 – when it previously claimed they fell.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- New Scientist Issue: 2746 pp: 11
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Trade and climate: Joined at the hip?
Two events of importance to sustainable development advocates took place at the close of the year 2009: the long-delayed WTO ministerial conference and the Copenhagen climate summit. How the world responds to climate change has significant implications for international trade. The Copenhagen Accord does not even mention two of the most contentious issues at stake here, i.e.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Bridges Vol: 14 Issue: 1
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Sikkim bans import of poultry products
GANGTOK, Jan 27 – Alarmed by the reported outbreak of bird flu in Murshidabad district of neighbouring West Bengal, the Sikkim Government on Monday announced an immediate ban on the import of poultry products from outside the State.
- Date:
- 28/01/2010
- Source:
- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
