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F For Failed
DR MANMOHAN Singh is an honourable man. He is soft-spoken, decent and, unlike most Indian politicians, he did not seek high office to line his pockets with ill-gotten wealth. For that alone, we in India, who continue to suffer consistently at the hands of dark politicians who steal from us, should be eternally grateful.
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Under the scanner
the Allahabad High Court recently admitted a petition filed by the Wildlife Trust of India (wti) against a US $286 million World Bank project for draining of Etawah and Mainpuri wetlands in Uttar
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MTC buses being tested for smoke opacity
Riding down Anna Salai, Tamil Nadu in the sweltering heat with teeming vehicles radiating heat can be a tough experience. But difficult still is the smoky assault from the tailpipes of lorries,
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Traditional knowledge of water management in Kumaon Himalaya
Water resources regime in Kumaon Himalaya is a product of its specific environmental conditions. Major river systems, lakes along with a plethora of streams and springs are the main sources of water in this region. In pre-colonial Kumaon, communities took pride in their water systems and the local communities had the right of ownership over the use of local natural resources.
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'Dam virus' engulfs Arunachal Pradesh
<p>The North-east is slated to be India's 'future power house' with approximately 170 large hydroelectric projects to generate around 70,000 MW planned in the region. The large dams juggernaut promises to be the biggest 'development' intervention in this ecologically and geologically fragile, seismically active and culturally sensitive landscape in the days to come.</p>
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Story so far
1992: Proposal for a convention fails at Earth Summit 1995: Ad hoc open-ended Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) set up for policy deliberations under Commission on Sustainable Development
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Balangir's distressed migrants
From a resource rich area to a metaphor for poverty, the Balangir district of Orissa has covered a long distance. Plausibly, it is this journey that is driving its inhabitants to go away from their roots a fact apparent during a public hearing on distr
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Centre puts Dadri project on hold
New Delhi: In another embarrassment for the poll-bound BSP government in Uttar Pradesh, the Union environment ministry has put Ansal’s 2,400-acre housing project, Hi-Tech Township City, at Dadri on hold
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Our date with Mars
August will be the Day of Mar watchers: The red planet will come closest to our home in 60,000 years on that day. The planet, "getting bigger" since the beginning of May will be the brightest object
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Capital gets IGL's fifth CNG station
The fifth mega pumping station of the Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) was inaugurated in the Capital on Sunday with much fanfare by Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Ram Naik. Speaking on
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No staff, Assam biodiversity hotspot in danger
The "paradise" which has not been given due attention it deserves over a century and a decade is now at risk, though not "lost" yet. Since its declaration as a Reserve Forest on July 18, 1890 and
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AMC plans tree census using GPS
Ahmedabad : Civic body is likely to take up a tree census for city with help of a Mumbai-based firm Terracon Ecotech. Census is one-of-its-kind in the country, based on modern methods using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) system.
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Mayawati Sells 2,400 Acres Wetlands
Environment ministry stops Ansals housing project at Dadri in Greater Noida as the area is home to migratory birds. The BSP government in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh is once again caught in a controversial
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Aspects of Lower Subansiri Project
The throb of the Subansiri valley will stop on the day when practically no water will be released by NHPC except in the peak period of the evening, and for all the winter months to come, the river, which
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Development to dovetail with ecological balance: Sofi
Minister for Forest and Enviornment Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Sofi has asked the NHPC to send the proposal of Pakal Dam and Barsar Project to be constructed at Marwah Dacchan in Doda district in Jammu and
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EU not to Spare Aviation from Emission Plan
The European Union has made clear that while it would not consider putting on hold the inclusion of the aviation sector in its Emission Trading Scheme, it was willing to consider whether India's efforts
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Ban on borings
Bad news for those willing to construct a house on plots purchased from the private property developers. The Uttar Pradesh State government is planning to put a complete ban on new borings and
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Six year stall on smokestreet
Contrary to the position taken by the West Bengal state transport minister Subhas Chakraborty that it is impossible to implement Bharat Stage-II norms for auto emission rules in "just 10 months" the
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BEEDI TAX
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has disposed a batch of writ petitions challenging the levy of sales tax on Abnus (beedi) leaves being collected by the AP forest development corporation. The division