Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
US PRESIDENT-elect Bill Clinton's appointment of Carol Browner as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a clear signal that the new US administration will move aggressively on environmental issues. Browner, 36, has excellent credentials for this key job, whose main challenge will be to settle the thorny issue …
THE WORLD Bank has approved a $70 million loan to finance the 450-MW hydroelectric dam on Chile's biggest river, the Bio Bio. The loan was sanctioned by the bank's International Finance Corp (IFC), which lends to the private sector, even before the Pangue dam's environmental impact assessment by the bank …
DETERMINING biological oxygen demand (BOD), an important pollution indicator, from urban sewage wastes will now be easier and faster. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in Hyderabad and the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute in Nagpur have developed a model that could be readily used to predict BOD …
What is the significant insight that you have gleaned over your years in environmental politics? We've realised the circle of dependency that exists between the government -- with its five-year cycle of being in power -- and industry -- with its 20-30 year cycle of investment planning. Industrialised countries depend …
NO OTHER region of India has paid a heavier price for India's industrialisation than the Damodar valley, which traverses the poor states of Bihar and West Bengal. Rich in coal resources, the region has been extensively mined for this valuable mineral, which energises domestic hearths and industrial furnaces throughout the …
AS INDIA plodded along the road. to world market integration, structural reforms initiated in 1991 resulted in the government's near- total dependence on market forces for price corrections. A study by S P Gupta, research director at the New Delhi-based Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, indicates growth …
CHINESE science is going the market way. A new policy recommends the withdrawal of state funding for twothirds of the country's research scientists. But scientists protest their work has vital relevance to industry. Researchers fear that the new policy, which may only be a short-term measure to counter recession, will …
GROWING awareness over the last decade of the negative consequences of industrialisation in the South, led to many forms of cooperation between environmental organisations in the North and the South, including campaigns against large- scale World Bank projects and destruction of rain forests in Latin America. But Northern NGOs have …
1992 * 81 skins, including 3 tiger skins, were seized in Delhi in one of the biggest hauls of the decade. * Trader caught in Delhi with 2 tiger skins and leopard skins, totally worth Rs 3 lakh. * Three poachers caught in Ranthambore with a tiger skin, a leopard …
BONES AND other parts of tigers have been used in Chinese medicines for thousands of years. Although there is no proof of the curative qualities of tiger derivatives, the belief in their efficacy is as strong as ever. The Chinese Materia Medica, dating back to 1597, states the yellow bones …
Israel will run out of drinking water in three years unless the government moves fast to eliminate massive mismanagement of the resource. Israel uses almost 80 per cent of the resources in the area. Now the Palestinians want half of it and Jordan wants a fair share of water from …
HOW do we restructure the economy of the rich world so that it can live in harmony with its environment and with that of the rest of the world? The state of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) in Germany, which includes the cities of Bonn and Cologne, is one of the …
A STRIKING feature of India's economic development has been its deviation from the stages-of-growth pattern that has characterised almost all developed countries. The growth paradigm has been so pervasive, it is now almost an economic law. Countries start out as being primarily agrarian. As industrialisation progresses, the production and employment …
THE BLUE Danube lost much of its magic when on August 1 Slovakia started dumping concrete blocks weighing several tonnes into the river. By October 20, these had narrowed the Danube from 400 metres to 160 metres. Slovakia was at the time given permission by the Danube Commission, the association …
THREE-and-a-half centuries after the rest of the world, the Catholic church has finally discovered the sun does not revolve around it, or even around the earth. The result is the rehabilitation of Pisan astronomer and pioneer of modern physical science Galileo Galilei by Pope John Paul on November 1, in …
THE BRITISH government is finding it easier to preach than practice. After lecturing developing countries in Rio on the importance of controlling global warming, it has now been forced by a nationwide protest to rescind its decision to close British Coal's 31 pits and lay off three-fifths -- some 30,000 …
Some of the important suggestions made by the Ministry of Industry are: 1. 100 per cent conversion to HCFC-22, a transitional substitute, by 2000. 2. 50 per cent phase-out of CFC-12 by l999 or 2000 in all those applications where HCFC-22 conversion is not possible. 3. 100 per cent phase-out …
NORTHERN donors are being forced to rethink their basics after the Rio conference. Prominent among these are the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with developing countries (SAREC) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), both of whom fund research projects in the developing world. Before they can get on with …
THE INDIAN government has initiated a national project to develop alternatives to ozone-depleting chemicals. Four national laboratories -- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) in Hyderabad, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune, Industrial Toxicological Research Centre (ITRC) in Lucknow and Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) in Dehra Dun -- are …
THE PROPOSED establishment of the Commission for Sustainable Development (SDC), hailed as "one of the quiet victories" of the Rio conference, is becoming a source of North-South contention that is expected to peak at the 47th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. Among the issues to be …
