Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
In an ideal market economy competition lowers prices of consumer goods. It is just the opposite in the case of pharmaceutical products. More expensive brands sell more. Take Cyclovir, an ointment for treating skin infection caused by herpes. Its therapy cost (cost of one course) is Rs 812, while a …
The resignation of T T Krishnamachari from the finance ministership in early 1958 was the culmination of three developments evolving concurrently. The first was the M C Chagla Commission of Enquiry Report, which ultimately led to Jawaharlal Nehru accepting Krishnamachari
Money comes into Mysore, especially for real estate transactions, not only through legal, banking channels but also in gunny bags, and that has been a common practice. Real estate transactions, with the exception of new apartments purchased from builders, generally include both a legal white money payment through a bank …
In the current context of economic instability, young men and women today face increasing uncertainty in their hopes of making a satisfactory labour market transition. Clearly, the global economic crisis has further exposed the fragility of youth in the labour market. At the end of 2009, there were an estimated …
The rapid growth in transport activity, based primarily on private motorised vehicles, generates social, environmental and economic costs. Transport already accounts for more than half of global liquid fossil fuel consumption and nearly a quarter of the world
Feeding the world is going to require the scientific and financial muscle of agricultural biotechnology companies. Natasha Gilbert asks whether they're up to the task.
Producing enough food for the world's population in 2050 will be easy. But doing it at an acceptable cost to the planet will depend on research into everything from high-tech seeds to low-tech farming practices. (Editorial)
All discussion of illegal mining, specially of iron ore, has to keep in mind two things. First, the nature of legality cannot be defined in narrow terms of mining laws, but needs to cover the environmental and social goods that lie in its ambit. Second, the massive growth in mining …
The CSC scheme in Assam is a poor advertisment for both the centre's e-governance drive and the public-private partnership model. Common service centres have sprung up here with a few government services on offer and appear to exist only to profit private partners availing of the government's subsidy.
Noor Mohammad New Delhi: Hydro power, traditionally the preserve of the public sector, is fast turning to be an area where only private players can survive. Unable to face stiff competition from private companies who snatch away projects from them by offering better deals to the state governments, hydro PSUs …
The value of ecosystems is largely invisible to markets. Ricardo Bayon and Michael Jenkins call on governments to drive regulatory and voluntary economic instruments that put a price on the services that nature provides. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7303/pdf/466184a.pdf
To generate employment in the State and to encourage investments in financial and social infrastructure, the Government announced the launch of a new Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy while presenting the budget 2009-2010. The broad outlook of the new policy not only focuses on industrial investments but has also aimed …
This report seeks to inform decision makers seeking to prioritise RD&D; investments in a time of financial uncertainty. It is an update of the December 2009 IEA report Global Gaps in Clean Energy Research, Development and Demonstration, which examined whether rates of LCET investment were sufficient to achieve shared global …
This Report to the People on Employment provides a framework to understand the contemporary employment scenario. It focuses on key issues of generation of quality employment for the people seeking work. The issue of providing decent work, particularly to those who are excluded and marginalized in the labour market is …
The audit was done to examine whether due diligence has been exercised in selection of a private developer for development of a Pondicherry Port on BOT basis and the procedure laid down by the Union Government in this regard has been followed by Government of Pondicherry.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is reviewing its Sustainability Framework, including the Policy on Social and Environmental Sustainability (Policy), the Performance Standards (PS), and the Policy on Disclosure of Information. While the Policy defines the IFC's responsibility in providing financing for projects, the PS establish the IFC
This report discusses the losses to the economy due to poor logistics infrastructure, which will substantially increase under current trajectory of infrastructure development, and recommends a new, balanced modal approach for India's logistics infrastructure development. The report reveals that losses to the economy will increase from $45 billion (over 4 …
India is witnessing a big wave of public-private-partnership projects in various sectors to quicken the pace of infrastructure development. The current impetus on such partnerships comes due to several factors that have shifted the responsibility of infrastructure development from public agencies to private enterprises. The first is the desire to …
