Cursory commitment
Five companies making personal computers have failed to fulfill a pro-environment commitment to recycle old products in Hong Kong, claims a conservation group. The Friends of the Earth (foe), Hong
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Testing matter
New alternative testing methods, which will reduce the need for testing certain drugs and chemicals on animals, were recently approved by a scientific committee. The Scientific Advisory Committee
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Brazilian soy traders help preserve Amazon
Bowing to pressure from consumer and environmental groups, Brazilian soy traders have stopped buying soybeans grown in the Amazon basin for the time being. The move is an effort to preserve the
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Faltering mission
D N Tiwari, former member of the Planning Commission and the man behind the national mission programme on biodiesel, looks at the programme
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EC stops import of US long grain rice
Following the us government's announcement that an illegal and untested genetically modified strain had contaminated its conventional long-grain rice, the European Commission has stopped its
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IN SHORT
thrown out: Tamil actress Radhika has been expelled from the primary membership of AIADMK, the main opposition party in Tamil Nadu "for acting against the interests of the party'. She appeared in a
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Insuring fisherfolk
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Tsunami hit farmers of Nagapattinam against prawn industry
The prawn farming industry in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu has bounced back from the losses of the tsunami of December 26, 2004, causing irreperable damage to agriculture. The tsunami hit farmers of
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So near, so far
Panchayati raj has many failures. And, many ways of looking at it THE discussion on panchayats remains polarised. Proponents of new economic models and privatisation decry panchayati raj as
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Up for grabs
<b> Violators make hay, regulators don't shine</b> <br>
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Web Exclusive Pak issues norms to address health risks from mobile phone base stations
Pakistan's minister of information technology Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari recently announced a policy establishing national guidelines for mitigating environmental and health related effects of cellular
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In short
us not in chemical safety forum: The US government in the third week of September pulled back from the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety. In a letter to the forum, the director of
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Award for ecosecurity
For his outstanding work in fighting malaria, V P Sharma gets the Green Scientist Award 2001
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Kerala panchayat wins face off with Coke
Two recent directives of the Kerala High Court have further vindicated the Perumatty Grama Panchayat s stand in its face off with the Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Private Limited
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Dateline: farm
Agri Watch Eight pages of all the news that the Indian farmer can use
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Crisis persists
India Pakistan talks on Sir Creek inconclusive
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Stop trade
Soligas harvested forest produce. For them, it was a sustainable business. Then, irrationally, government moved to
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Sapped
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
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Deep-rooted benefits
Organic farming boosts biodiversity of all species
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Persistent poison
Review highlights need to ban organochlorines worldwide