Gaps in Gap
What's the difference between the Ganga today and the Ganga 13 years ago. Nothing, except that Rs 462.02 crore from government coffers has been emptied into the river. Or rather the pockets of those
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Aid for alleviation
THE INTERNATIONAL aid organisation, Oxfam, wants Western governments to evolve a Marshall plan to tackle the problem of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and prevent 9 million people in the region
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IVORY COAST
Foreign and national investors are being wooed in a big way to the Ivory Coast, which is overhauling its 30-year-old mining code for their benefit. The objective, according to a draft code presented
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NEPAL AIDS VICTIM
In their battle against AIDS, HIV-positive people of Nepal have found a new ally: the government. Recently, the ministry of health and ministry of women and social welfare announced an extensive HIV
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In court
Mining firm Acquitted: On April 24, 2007, Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's biggest gold producer, and one of its executives were acquitted of charges related to dumping unsafe levels of toxic
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No to marble mining
"MARBLE, no; water, yes," shouted demonstrators at a recent rally in Kathmandu, demanding an immediate end to quarrying in the Godavari hills of the picturesque valley in which the capital
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SRI LANKA
Sri Lanka's fierce civil war has taken a heavy toll on it's wildlife. A recent report in the Sri Lankan Daily News claims that land mines have killed or injured several wild elephants. Charles
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Sweeping reforms
In response to a writ petition, Nepal's supreme court has asked the government to keep the capital city of Kathmandu free of garbage. Recently, the court issued a directive to ensure healthy
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China struggles for safe mining
But many believe closing over 7,000 coalmines would be futile
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The last resort
Some places where the law has failed...
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Biodiversity strategy plan
to evolve a proper and precise methodology for conserving the ecology, a national biodiversity strategy and action plan (nbsap) was inaugurated in New Delhi recently. It will cover areas
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TRAWLING CONCESSIONS
The government of Pakistan will allow factory trawlers of China, Taiwan and Korea to do deep-sea fishing in the country's waters. "The permits to foreign trawlers require the mandatory installation
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Essar gets Bailadila prospecting lease
Moving towards privatisation of mining in India, the Union government granted Essar Steel Limited a prospecting licence in February 2007 to mine iron ore reserves in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada
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LOSING BATTLE
Despite a multi-million campaign against opium growers in Pakistan, production of the 1998 opium crop is expected to be all time high. According to estimates, opium poppies have been planted on
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Penalised for polluting
A ChevronTexaco-led oil grouping, Tengizchevroil (TCO), has been fined US $70 million by a court in Kazakhstan for environmental violations. Kazakh officials point out that TCO was penalised
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SPEED IS THE NEED
Bangladesh wom retain a sluggish annual gross domes product (GDP) rate below five per a unless it improves its pace of refom warns the World Bank (WB). A rece study conducted by WH
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ZAMBIA
Zambia's structural adiustment programme has changed the face of its labour force. While over 72,000 adults have been rendered jobless over the last 4 years since the reforms began, children
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Norms for coal mines
the government has decided to put an end to the use of harmful chemicals being used to suppress dust pollution in coal mining area. This was stated by Union minister of state for environment and
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CHARGES DENIED
Broken Hill Proprietary Corporation (BHP), an Australian minerals, energy and steel company, will contest charges of polluting fish habitats near its isolated Ekati diamond mine in the North West
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Victim of callousness
sakhi, the thirteen-month-old Bengal tigress of the Nehru Zoological Park ( nzp ) in Hyderabad was recently killed due to the careless attitude of the zoo authorities. Poachers intruded into