banning gm foods
Sri Lanka has imposed a ban on genetically modified (GM) foods to avoid any health risks that are associated with such crops. Officials said that the ban would give them more time to find out if GM
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Bleeding white
Antarctic microbes could be rampantly exploited to benefit a few
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Update
The Group of Ministers on the draft resettlement and rehabilitation policy had its third meeting on July 19, where it considered increasing the state governments' role in land acquisition for
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Dispute over status of forestland in MP, Chhattisgarh
the Supreme Court on August 24, 2007, ordered Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh governments to respond to a petition to clarify the status of at least 1.2 million hectares (ha). Called Orange area
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CONSERVATION
The Delhi high court has issued notice to the Centre on a petition by the World Wide Fund for Nature, seeking an inquiry into the implementation of the court's earlier directives regarding wildlife
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IN A SHAMBLES
<i>Decline of the Kerala PDS</i> <br><br> Until a decade ago, owning a ration shop in Kerala was a status symbol. Abdul Rehman, a retail ration dealer for more than two decades, always enjoyed a special status in Ambayathode village of Kozhikode district, with over 1,700 ration card holders on his roll. Rehman was one of the 14,236 retail dealers who catered to close to 91 per cent of the state population in a model public distribution system. According to government officials, there was one ration outlet within two km radius of every household. But that was then.<br>
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NEWS SNIPPETS
• The Chinese government has postponed an auction that would have allowed foreign companies to bid for licences to hunt wild animals following a public backlash. The auction would have allowed
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Driven to the extreme
Rampant pollution and state inaction forces farmers to attack and kill a miner in Goa
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Green gag
the West Bengal Pollution Control Board ( wbpcb ) has banned the setting up of new businesses, including hospitals and nursing homes in Calcutta and Howrah. The wbpcb has come out with
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DELHI
Officials from the ministry of environment and forests and the Delhi government have been issued show cause notices by the Delhi High Court. The reason: their inability to care for the
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Sell off norms
Rules being framed for disinvestment of natural resource based PSUs
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News snippets
>> The African Network of Environmental Journalists has received US $480,000 in funding from the European Commission to enable it to organise six regional workshops on environmental governance.
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GREENER TOMORROW
The government of Pakistan recently endorsed the setting up of a US $50 million fund dedi cated to the cause of the environment. It was approved by the Pakistan Environmental Protection Council
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Zimbabwean diaspora uses Internet to help relatives back home
Soaring inflation and a chaotic governance has put Zimbabwe into its worst days. But its diaspora has pitched in to help, through a medium that the country's despotic regime can hardly tame: the
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Sanitary by 2010
Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target
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The yarn of justice
The us defeat is final now. On March 3, 2005, the World Trade Organization (wto) appellate body upheld a ruling that condemned the us government for providing illegal export subsidies to its
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South Asia
Blunder tourism: Six months after the tsunami disaster, the inhabitants of Arugam Bay on Sri Lanka's east coast are protesting a government move ostensibly aimed at creating a safety buffer zone
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So near, so far
Panchayati raj has many failures. And, many ways of looking at it THE discussion on panchayats remains polarised. Proponents of new economic models and privatisation decry panchayati raj as
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News Snippets
• Chile should reform its criminal and military justice codes to eliminate provisions that criminalise speech disrespectful of public authorities, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the
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Softening up
US mild stand on mercury