Clinching evidence
• Pramod Gupta, REL's assistant vice president, wrote to DTEPA chairperson on February 12, 2005 (REL/CTS/2005/7) that REL has "finalised the technical and commercial negotiations and have issued
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www.biodiversityhotspots.org Depleting resources The term
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No place to go
Sagar Refugee Colony, Ganga Sagar <i>gram panchayat</i>: Ever since her older son went off to work as a daily labourer in Kashmir two years ago, Sahajadi Bibi has to worry a little less about how to feed her family of eight.
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Warmonger
Global warming also reduces genetic diversity of wildlife
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Fuel price imbroglio
Thailand's major fishing operators are driving a tough bargain for fuel price cutback. They recently rejected the government's offer to let them buy subsidised "purple fuel', which went on sale on
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Un dammed opposition
The us $1.2 billion Merowe/Hamadab dam on river Nile in Sudan, the largest hydropower project being developed in Africa, is being opposed by environmentalists. The 1,250-megawatt dam, to be
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An old, cold ecosystem
A vast ecosystem recently discovered below Antarctica's floating ice shelves could offer a completely new understanding of the origin of life in extreme environments. The sunless habitat was found
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NEWS SNIPPETS
<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> About 70 residents of Alice Springs, Australia met on September 1, 2005 and voted to keep their community radio station 8 CCC on the air. The station operates out of Charles Darwin University, which has clashed with station management over content.
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In Court
japanese resist dam:Japan's Osaka High Court (HC) recently ordered construction of a dam on the Echigawa river, to be shelved due to environmental concerns. This is an important win for the residents
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Nipped in the bud
Under construction coke plant burnt
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Marine fisheries growing as energy intensive centres
Marine fisheries have become very energy intensive
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US reaction to cola controversy exaggerrated India Inc
Soon after the cola controversy (see
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Red alert in Chhattisgarh
Land acquisition is at the centre of intense political and social disputes in the tribal hinterland of Chhattisgarh. On the one hand, Naxal extremists enforce their version of justice by opposing land alienation. But the new state has its compulsion
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New nabobs
Will SEZs be fiefdoms, beyond the law?
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Contested terrain
The business of settling new-formed land, rehabilitation of environmental refugees and building and maintaining embankments is subject to much political manoeuvring. Anthropologist Amites Mukhopadhyay of Kalyani University, West Bengal, who's researched these machinations extensively, calls it " <i>char</i> politics'.
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Healthy idea
But a poor way to bell the malnutrition cat
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A safety valve!
Alarmed by super rapid industrialisation in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank suggests urgent corporate voluntary action and diluted regulations
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DISASTER AVERTED?
Katrina leaves chemical plants intact, says EPA; environmentalists not convinced
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Affordable profit
Le <i> Clemenceau</i> is undoubtedly big. It has dominated more than its fair share of media space. But it does deserve it. Not because of its scale or the fact that it is carrying asbestos, whether in its cargo or its structure.