Dreams of empire
Sterlite Industries of India Limited and Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) are subsidiaries of Vedanta Resources Plc, a publicly-traded British metals and mining company owned principally by
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Not very exacting
Regulations ignore key technical parameters While new norms are adopted, durability requirements and in-use compliance measures are not strengthened to ensure that vehicles remain low emitting
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Short of IAS cadre, Chhattisgarh turns to foresters
Alok Prakash Putul chhattisgarh is facing shortage of administrative officers of Indian Administrative Services (ias) cadre. To fill the vacant posts, the state government has deputed 26 ifs
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Replicator
Inspired by the Sukhomajri model, the Integrated Watershed Development Programme-Hills (IWDP) replicated it on a large scale. Funded by the World Bank, IWDP was initiated in five states in the
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Website review: http://www.yaw.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/index.html
This web site is the brainchild of UK scientists, who have hit upon an effective method to counter the controversy surrounding the names of the nation s 50,000 known species. It is estimated that about 300,000 scientific names are used to distinguish them
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Worthy winners Goldman prize
Julia Bonds, a grandmother living in the state of West Virginia, usa, has been awarded the 2003 Goldman environmental prize for her fearless campaigning against the hazardous practice of mountaintop coal mining. Bonds, the director of the protest group Co
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Toxic, to date
Thank you, gold rush
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Malefactor
Agrochemicals affect sperms
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Proposals put on hold
Panel for second look at diverting protected forests
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Stronger curbs
On pesticide in France
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Seeds of justice in Bihar
Seed major Monsanto has been held guilty for supplying Bihar's farmers with bad quality hybrid maize seeds two years ago and causing them huge losses. A House panel of the state government recently
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The yarn of justice
The us defeat is final now. On March 3, 2005, the World Trade Organization (wto) appellate body upheld a ruling that condemned the us government for providing illegal export subsidies to its
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Dam referendum
Residents of Rio Hondo municipality in Guatemala's eastern department of Zacapa recently rejected a hydroelectric plant on the Colorado river through a referendum. "We say no
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Hybrid cars take over
Toyota has announced that in future, 100 per cent of the manufacturer's new vehicles will be hybrids, running on both electricity and traditional fuels. Japan's largest and the world's second-largest
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Power and people
China plans to turn the Nu River in southwest Yunnan province with a chain of up to 13 hydropower stations, into a hydroelectric hub. The government's release of a five-year development plan draft
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Nesting rights
An animal rights group in the us has filed a lawsuit against United Illuminating Co (uic) in Connecticut, US, seeking to stop removal of monk parakeet nests from utility poles. Filed in the New
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In court
lawsuit filed: About 100 companies involved in snow-crab fishing in Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada, have filed a us $ 135 million lawsuit against the federal government. Filed in the Court of
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Bytes
freshness sensor: Grocers, florists and even pharmacists may soon have a better way to monitor the quality of products they get from suppliers: a sensor that will tell when a product spoils. A
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Salmon cages out
The Palena local government in Chilean Patagonia recently ordered the navy to remove all breeding cages of industrial salmon illegally placed by Pacific Star Salmon Company in Chaiten village. The
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Ramkistapur village
Parakal <i>mandal</i>, Warangal district