Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Marching orders have literally been issued to the Delhi outlet of the famous multinational fast-food joint - Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) within weeks of its opening. The Delhi High Court has refused to stay the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) order of closing the restaurant for lack of sanitation. Apparently, …
THE World Bank (WE) has made a strong plea for concerted action by the governments of the rich and poor countries alike, to "reverse the long-run trend of widening international inequality." In its World Development Report, 1995, it has argued that the rich countries must preserve open trade relations and …
THIS small book is a fairly detailed technoeconomic analysis of the Enron controversy and raises some interesting questions. Apart from the problems of high capital cost and high load factor guarantee, it brings out 2 facts not generally known. First, Dabhol Power Corporation (DPC), a subsidiary set up by Enron …
MEXICO'S woefully inadequate environment conservation infrastructure has been a boon for multinational waste disposal firms. Over 40 such companies have opened shop in Mexico City, including leading international firms such as Chemical Waste Management. The revenues of the Mexican subsidiary of the company rose by 40 per cent last year …
IS THE Montreal Protocol an international treaty committed to the task of protecting the earth"s endangered -- and getting closer to the point of no return day by day -- ozone shield? Or is it a clever trap to hold the developing world captive to those who created much of …
Ask anyone to locate Papua New Guinea on a map and there are very good chances that he or she wouldn't know where to start. Till recently, Papua New Guinea was a relatively obscure archipelago on the western rim of the Pacific. Portuguese colonisers first landed on the island in …
LABELS such as "Made in Japan", "Made in Germany, "Made in USA" are losing their meaning. Modern communications technology, collapsing international trade barriers and increasing competition are expanding the global economy. As a result, the service and industry sectors are being transformed and integrated across the world in an unprecedented …
Officers' associations of major public sector power undertakings have warned of a crisis in the energy sector if the government's liberalisation policy in power generation and distribution is pushed through. The officers' association of the National Thermal Power Corporation, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd and Central Electricity Authority have submitted a …
The Union agriculture ministry's plan to draw up a national fisheries policy for the integrated development of fishing in India has drawn flak from organisations representing coastal fisherfolk in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The fisherfolk have objected strongly to the Union government's policy of supporting …
ON SEPTEMBER 22, at a high-profile meet at the Belvedere Club of Oberoi Towers hotel (Check hotel name) in Bombay, a section of Indian businesspeople and industrialists warned the government to take care its economic policy of liberalisation and globalisation, did not harm their enterprises. On the same day, A …
THIS UNIDO study is an useful data source on the world's pharmaceutical industry and has been used in the World Development Report, 1993. The UNIDO data files on this often secretive industry are indispensable and form the basis of much of the analysis in this book. The authors note that …
What was it that led you to abandon a lucrative career abroad and return to your country? Was it your rural roots? No, though I was born on December 27, 1941, in Uttarpara village of Chittagong district, I had hardly any rural connections. I was schooled in Calcutta, then at …
CONTRARY to what environmentalists may think, a prestigious United Nations report -- the World Investment Report (WIR), 1992 -- has virtually given a clean chit to multinational corporations (MNCs). It says there is very little evidence to show that MNCs shift environmentally dangerous industries to poor countries. But not all …
AT A RALLY of 300,000 people in Shegaon, Maharashtra, last November, the Shetkari Sanghatana put forward a new farm programme called chaturang sheti (four-pronged agriculture). Sanghatana leader Sharad Joshi argued the economic crises and the collapse of statist development models have resulted in the state being unable to extract surpluses …
THE DECISION of the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) to invite multinational corporations (MNCs) to set up large telephone exchanges has made domestic manufacturers of indigenously-developed equipment apprehensive of being left out of the lucrative urban market. Fujitsu, Siemens, AT&T;, Ericsson and Alcatel have bid for the contracts which will wipe …
On the night of 3rd December, 1984, Union Carbide tank 610, released 40 tonnes of lethal gas into Bhopal. What followed was the worst industrial disaster in human history. “Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain” is a movie set amidst that disaster. This 2 minute 45 second long trailer of the …
