Grim reminder
A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness
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Grim reminder
A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness
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Serving in god s name
This dedicated band have abandoned their egos and selfishness to go about performing social service without any fanfare
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mandlikpur Rajkot Life with Recharged Wells
In the past six years, the 3,500-odd residents of this village in Rajkot district, which falls in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, have come a long way. After a prolonged water crisis, the village
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Land for land
The declared rehabilitation goals never match the chicken feed that finally reaches the oustees
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Wardha Institute Develops First Solar Version
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: Mahatma Gandhi turned his humble charkha into a weapon to take on the might of the British empire and give India freedom. And now, it is set to make a contribution in the fight against global warming as well.
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L&T Power targets $3 bn sales by 2015
With an aim to capture the growing energy space in India, engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is targeting its power division to add sales of about $3 billion by 2015 compared to $400 million currently, the company's CMD AM Naik said.
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Shared misery
The government has finalised a strategy to get industries to reduce their waste
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19 th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering, 18-20 December 2014, Bhopal, India
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) Bhopal MP India , under the aegis of Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) is organizing , 19 th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources,
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International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal & Environmental Engineering, 18-20 December 2014, Bhopal, India
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) Bhopal MP India , under the aegis of Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) is organizing , 19 th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources,
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Mud is a cost effective biulding material
Mud is on its way to becoming a popular and economically viable medium of constructon with the urban builder
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Sometimes, cost is not at all an issue
The World Bank pumps in US $1 billion into Asia for environmental purposes every year. In India, the bank has been financing projects to control industrial and vehicular pollution. <font class='UCASE'>Maritta R V Bieberstein Koch Weser</font> , the head
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The government gives and takes away
Sixty year old Shakur Khan lives in J P Nagar, one of the areas worst affected by the gas leak. Governmental callousness, fading vision and tuberculosis have compelled Khan to give up the tailoring that used to provide his income. His wife and eight child
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An appraisal of the marine fisheries of Gujarat
Among the maritime states of India, Gujarat, with its 11 maritime districts, namely Kutch, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Amreli. Bhavanagar, Ahamedabad, Kheda, Bharuch, Surat and Valsad, has the longest
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Halons grow in India
WHILE the developed world gears up to phase out ozone depleting gases by AD 2000, Mafatlal's Navin Fluorine Industries has set up India's first halon-1211 manufacturing plant, in Surat.
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New diseases are the result of environmental degradation
After being instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, <font class='UCASE'>D A Henderson</font> , director, Centre for Civilian Biodefence, Johns Hopkins University, USA, finds that changes in the environment are leading to mutations in viruses makin
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Cotton crucible
In the past five years, when cotton farmers of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab were struggling, Gujarat farmers were making hay, to the tune of Rs 5,000 crore a year. The state’s total yield has increased by 5.6 million bales in the past five years.
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On the Hope
1: Mohammed Farouque 4, has brain tumour. His father Sayyad Hussain earns Rs 1,800 per month polishing brass on utensils in a factory in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. The child was six months old
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India State of the Environment Report : The Monthly Overview, September 2013
The Kerala government has decided to appeal against two national green tribunal orders that said that the government should take note and adhere to the recommendations of the Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report while approving private and commercial development in eco-sensitive zones. Read more in this September 2013 edition of the Monthly India State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
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MONEYMAKERS
drug deal: The pharmaceutical major, Ranbaxy has planned to launch 25 brands worldwide in coming seven years. The company is also targeting drugs that would come off patents during this period.
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Vanishing 'green'
THE Dangs, one of the few forests in Gujarat that boasts of green cover, is facing imminent danger of annihilation. Massive deforestation due to population pressures and rapid industrialisation are