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Tata Chem to launch water purifiers abroad
KOLKATA: Within a year of launch of the ‘Nano' car, a price-point breaking product aimed at the common man, the Tatas have now launched another people's product, a nano-technology-based water-purifier that needs neither electricity nor running water.
The gadget purifies potable water at 10 paise a litre and is aimed at rural India where water-borne diseases kill lakhs of people every year.
02/09/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
News
Biggest plant in Asia to produce cheese from goat milk
A plant producing cheese from goat milk will start production at Khajuraho in Chhattarpur district from first week of September. This will be the first and biggest plant in Asia and the cheese produced here will be exported to European countries. Agreements to this effect have already been signed. 300 persons will get direct employment at the plant.
27/08/2010
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
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Asia's middle class will help rebalance economy: ADB
Asia’s rapidly rising middle class, led by India and China, would be the key to rebalance the global economy, making it more consumption-driven rather than relying heavily on external demand.
20/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
News
India's middle class drives consumption, growth: ADB
NEW DELHI: Even as innovative and cheaply priced products targeted at India's booming middle class are helping to spur domestic consumption and growth, this segment of the population remains vulnerable to economic shocks and carefully calibrated policy measures will be needed to sustain income gains in the longer-term, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said.
In a special chapter of ‘Key indi
20/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
News
Pollution threat in Asia
ANDREW JACOBS
Three lakh, forty thousand people in India and China die each year from cardiovascular and respiratory dis eases that can be traced to noxious emissions
Three lakh, forty thousand people in India and China die each year from cardiovascular and respiratory dis eases that can be traced to noxious emissions
12/08/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
News
Russian fires may melt Arctic ice
Oslo: Smoke from forest fires smothering Moscow adds to health problems of “brown clouds” from Asia to the Amazon and Russian soot may stoke global warming by hastening a thaw of Arctic ice, environmental experts say.
11/08/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Feature Articles
Rice yields in tropical/subtropical Asia exhibit large but opposing sensitivities to minimum and maximum temperatures
Production of rice will slow down as temperatures increase in rice-growing areas with continued climate change warns this new study published in latest edition of PNAS. Is based an analysis of 6 years of data from the major rice-growing countries in Asia.
See Also
Report: A framework for adapting Indian agriculture
www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/299905
See Also
Report: A framework for adapting Indian agriculture
www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/299905
Aug 2010
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1-6
Reports and Documents
Jatropha: A smallholder bioenergy crop
Mass planting of jatropha as a biofuel crop could benefit poor
areas as well as combating global warming, but only if a number of
scientific and production issues are properly addressed, a review has
warned.
Aug 2010
FAO
Reports and Documents
Measuring the environmental impacts of changing trade patterns on the poor
It is an empirical fact that it is very difficult to balance economic growth, poverty reduction, and environment protection, particularly for developing and transitional economies.
Aug 2010
Asian Development Bank
Reports and Documents
Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2010
Developing Asia's rapidly expanding middle class is likely to assume the traditional role of the US and Europe as primary global consumers and help rebalance the global economy, says a report on Asia’s middle class from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Aug 2010
Asian Development Bank
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