After 18 years, India wants Anderson
Eighteen years after a gas leakage at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, the government has finally asked the USA to hand over the then company CEO, Mr Warren M Anderson, to
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THE KING OF SMALL THINGS
A civil engineer and a farmer, he knows the importance of the relationship between land and water. Small dams are his forte.
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Bhopal ahead of other cities in polythene waste management
Despite the negative image about Bhopal created by the Union Carbide gas leak tragedy, the position is different when it comes to the city's concerns for its environment.
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution levels of the city of Indore, 31/03/2014
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Centre for Environment Protection, Research & Development Vs. State of M.P. & Others. dated 31/03/2014 regarding pollution
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Go vegetarian to save earth: Dead polar bears
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India wants to know what a groundbreaking 2006 UN report concluded: 'Raising animals for food generates more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, ships and planes in the world combined.' That is why the group will display on Tuesday (World Earth Day) of 'polar bears' with 'bloody' wounds and with forks stuck in their chests standing
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Servicing The Corporate Underbelly
The murky dealings of the world s largest public relations agency
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Stuck in small pockets
Several colony specific environmental problems surfaced during the election campaign in Delhi and that's where they remained.
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The muck stops here
Indian lakes are no longer serene waterbodies. Instead, they have become stinking cesspools, a result of continuous inflow of sewage and massive siltation. As the lakes die a premature death, the question that arises is who is responsible for this sorry s
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The road from Stockholm to Rio
It was the Stockholm conference, held exactly 20 years ago, which put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. But the contours of environmental negotiapons have changed a great deal from those early days
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Rs 4 crore work plan for gas hit
The Madhya Pradesh state government has provided sanction to a Rs 4 crore workplan of the Government of India for the economic rehabilitation of gas affected beneficiaries through NGOs. A review
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Closure of Gas relief department likely
The Madhya Pradesh government is toying with the idea of closing down the Gas Relief and Rehabilitation department that was created in the wake of the gas disaster in 1984. Chief Minister indicated
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A tinge of green
Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just concluded assembly elections.
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Generator operated on bio-gas invented
An illiterate farmer of village Sanjra in Madhya Pradesh has invented operation of generator with bio-gas installation. Local farmers are pleasantly surprised at the
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CNG supply in three MP cities
Union minister of state for Petroleum and Natural GAs Sumitra Mahajan said that CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) will be provided to Madhya Pradesh for industrial
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Gas victims Rs 400 crore likely to be diverted
The remaining compensation amount of Rs 400 crore for the gas victims could be utilised for the implementation of a big project in Bhopal. However, it is not decided what would be the project and
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A global right to know
In 1984, 40 tones of lethal gas leaded form a Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. Thousands of people were killed. The disaster in India led the U.S. Congress to pass a law requiring
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Thinking afresh
Agriculturists in India are gradually moving away from chemical pesticides and fertilisers;
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The right issue, the wrong place
The pollution of Betwa river figured prominently in the election campaign in two constituencies in Madhya Pradesh, but was ignored in the worst hit villages.
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TURMOIL IN TRIBAL LAND
Tribals and farmers in MP protest against exploitatiojl and atrocities
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Stumbling along on the road to green
A documentary telecast on Rajiv Gandhi's 50th birth anniversary examines the late Prime Minister's environmental initiatives, but finds the country has not moved very far in the direction Rajiv wanted it to go