Waking up to the horrors of child labour
Several groups are working among child workers in India, seeking to improve their working and living conditions
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The one tonne question
Almost all Agra industrialists are sore over the Mathura refinery being given a clean chit by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board.
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Drugs alone do not create health
Spending heavily on medicines does not necessarily result in better health, indicate recent studies.
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Journey to save a river
The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has started a 1,300-km yatra (journey) "to bind the valley together" against "destructive development". The yatra is an important step in the NBA's effort to augment
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NO GARBAGE ZONE
The biggest garbage dump in Mumbai will be closed now, courtesy the Supreme Court. Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the resident welfare association of Chincholi Bunder area
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IN COURT
J&K project through: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently granted a stay on a decision by the state government to cancel a contract for the 1,200-MW Sawalakote hydroelectric power project. The
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India
• Kochi has been selected as one of the centres for a major study, undertaken by the US-based Oakridge National Laboratory, to measure the phenomenon of global warming. • An
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Shifting pains
Karnataka gets jitters as Goa clamps down
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Sovereign wealth fund for overseas energy assets
The government is planning to create a multi-billion-dollar sovereign wealth fund to invest in energy assets such as oil, gas and coal across the world. "The plans are at a very initial stage. A decision on this would be taken after the budget,' Planning Commission energy adviser Surya P Sethi said here. "The fund, if set up, will invest in overseas oil, gas and coal assets.' Sethi did not give any idea of the possible size of the fund, but said: "It has to be in billions of dollars.' According to the latest data available with the Reserve Bank of India, the country's foreign exchange reserves stood at about $290.8 billion for the weekended February 8, up 57% from a year earlier. A sovereign wealth fund comprises assets such as stocks, bonds and other financial instruments, which is owned and managed by the government. The funds are deployed overseas for higher returns. The fund will be on the lines of Temasek Holdings, a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Singapore government. Officials are of the view that low returns on investments in US treasury bills and other sovereign securities did not cover the costs of maintaining huge forex reserves, and justified establishing a fund that could deliver higher returns. Last year, state-run India Infrastructure Finance Co Ltd set up an offshore unit in London to use part of the country's reserves to help local Companies import equipment for infrastructure projects. The corpus of this fund is $5 billion. The central bank has previously expressed reluctance at using forex reserves to set up an investment fund as it said the build-up in reserves was largely to insulate the Economy from the impact of huge capital inflows, which could be reversed at short notice.
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Powerful projects
A minister warns environmentalists to stay away from power projects
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Dirty move
The move to exempt certain categories of industry from a public hearing is anything but laudable
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Green money
Financial institutions may soon lend a helping hand to the environment sector, says the Indian environment minister
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Contentious conservation
The concern over protecting the Asiatic lion relegated forestdwellers to secondary status in Gir
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Green road turns rocky
ERSTWHILE communist Germany finds to its concern that it really is greener on the other side. Germany's ever-strict pollution control measures have given rise to severe problems for the five states
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Why is the Left giving up Singur's arable land for Tata's cars?
<i>The Hindu</i> of December 13, 2006 published a write-up on Singur on its op-ed page: "Some facts, please' by <font class="UCASE">cpi(m</font>) politburo member and leading intellectual Brinda Karat. She was countering what she called a smear campaign against the <font class="UCASE">cpi</font><font class="UCASE">m)</font> over the acquisition of land for the proposed Tata Motors project at Singur. There are some more facts, however, that I would like to bring to her notice. But before that I would also like to thank her for having brought some key issues to the fore.
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Operation salmon
Anticipating a repetition of the devastation of its East Coast fishing over the recent years, Canada said in late March that it would reduce West Coast salmon fishing by half, as the industry
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Closure ordered
SC clamps down on mining in Kudremukh National Park
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United we stand
Responses to the Centre for Science and Environment s statement
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A public eyewash
The inspection and maintenance programme is nothing more than testing tailpipes of vehicles in India. The government should stop wasting resources over this system, which ensures neither compliance nor clean air
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Super panel proposed to promote research
The setting up of a national research body and reviving the cabinet committee on science and technology are among the steps the government is considering to promote a scientific temper in the country.