PANJIM: In a major decision, the draft ‘Goa Investment Policy’ has proposed that the industries coming under Green category shall be exempted from renewals of their NOC/consent to operate from Goa

KOLKATA, 8 NOV: The state government is contemplating sending a joint delegation with representatives from leading business chambers to Delhi to press the Centre to lift the embargo on environmenta

Unrelenting in her opposition to a proposed National Investment Board, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan Monday said that she would personally speak to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the is

New Delhi: After a long hiatus, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is back in action, taking strong measures to protect its stance on various issues pertaining to environment and forest

High courts should replicate for states what the Supreme Court has done for Delhi's environment
M J Antony / New Delhi March 31, 2010, 0:07 IST

BY VENKAT PARSA
NEW DELHI

A transparent mines regulatory regime is on the cards. The Union mines ministry plans to develop a Mining Tenement System, which will help in creating a transparent regulatory regime for prospecting and mining licences in collaboration with the state governments. Several states are already experimenting with similar systems and a sharing of experience as well as data will be in the overall interest of the mineral sector.

Pakistan's Sindh high court has issued a notice to the federal and provincial govern

India's power sector might be in for a big change. A proposed electricity bill of the Union government

for the first time, the us environmental protection agency ( usepa ) has cancelled a company's license to grow genetically modified ( gm ) crop. The license to grow StarLink, a

reeling under a total halt to its timber trade after the Supreme Court imposed a ban on all timber-related activities in the Northeast five years ago, the state government of Assam has