Green tax
An energy tax on businesses in the UK is on the anvil
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Let s look for energy options
Subsidy cuts and differential taxation are energy options, says proposal
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Tax brakes
the Union Ministry of Finance imposed an additional duty of Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 per vehicle on big cars and utility vehicles on June 13. The decision comes as a knee-jerk reaction to the skyrocketing international crude prices. While welcoming the move as a step forward, experts said staving off an energy crisis would require making the tax progressively harsher and linking it with fuel
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Arunachal Pradesh state mega hydro electric power policy 2008
This document details the Arunachal Pradesh state mega hydro electric power policy 2008. It is aimed at developing hydropower projects in an eco-friendly manner and ensuring proper rehabilitation and resettlement of project affected people.
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Breathing time?
The automobile industry can breathe easy with the Supreme Court lifting its earlier restrictions on the sale of cars; plea for extending deadline on emission norms rejected
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Plastic Unlimited
New rules to restrict the use of plastic in India may end up promoting the polymer industry
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So what s new ?
What the auto industry needs in India is not protectionism but an incentive to become better
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PROXY ATTACK FROM FAR LEFT
Naxalites move into a mining belt; NGOs move out
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No greenhorn
FM focuses on political environment
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Depressing data
The achievements of Habitat I have been limited. This was so because of the economic crisis of the '805. According to official statistics, at least 280 million urban and more than 800 million rural
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Mining firms reject Zambia's new tax regime
The Zambian government's attempt to increase earnings from its rich copper deposits by raising mineral taxes to global standards is facing stiff resistance from foreign mine owners operating in the
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It s official
Japan makes it mandatory for government agencies to go for ecofriendly vehicles
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Involuntary sterilisations
more than 16,000 Japanese handicapped women were sterilised forcefully between 1949 and 1995. A health and welfare official admitted that these sterilisations had the approval of the Japanese
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The power of the people
villagers in Thailand have threatened to seal the forests in Kanchanaburi if the government did not stop work on the Thai-Burmese gas pipeline. They had earlier submitted a letter to Prime
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Stop reclamation plan
local environmental groups in South Korea have demanded an end to a large-scale reclamation project now underway on the southwestern coast of the nation. "The project should be scrapped
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NAFTA kicks in, Mexican farmers protest
The full introduction of the North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta) has raised concerns among Mexico's farmers who are agitating against it. With nafta kicking in fully on January 1, 2008,
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Unwanted guest
Furore over the transfer of a snow leopard from the City Forest National Park in Srinagar to Darjeeling
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Thin end of the wedge?
Maharashtra legalises contract farming, says farmers interests won t be harmed
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Judicial Drive
Even the country's highest court cannot do much to control corruption
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Cooperative revival
Centre keen on implementing Vaidyanathan committee report