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• DDC mobilizes public participation to maintain sanitation

  POONCH: In order to maintain sustainable sanitation in Poonch and other towns, District Development Commissioner, Poonch, Ajeet Kumar Sahu, launched a mass campaign from Poonch town today. Among others Superintendent of Police Shamsher Hussian, ADDC, Syed Anwar Hussain Shah, Superintendent District Hospital Dr.Mohammad Niaz and other senior officers of District Administration, prominent citizens including K.K.Kapoor, Dr.Subash Raina, Advocate Iftekhar Hussain Bazmi participated with dedication in cleanliness drive.

  • 10/12/2012

  • Daily Excelsior (Jammu)
  • • Municipal Corporation
    • Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign)
    • Sanitation
    • Jammu & Kashmir

• Doha: if not now, when?

  At the Doha climate change conference, the world agreed to strengthen the framework for future action. But it is now that action is needed The United Nations climate talks in Doha ended in overtime, in what can be best described a nail-biting finish. This was the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The COP is held once a year to push for action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, so intertwined with economic growth that the world has been haggling for the past 20 years over who will cut and how much.

  • 10/12/2012

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • COP 18 (Doha)
    • UNFCCC
    • Green House Gases
    • Super Storm Sandy
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Climate Equity
    • Extreme Weather Events
    • European Union (EU)
    • Typhoon
    • Philippines
    • Economy
    • Sunita Narain
    • CSE
    • Climate Change

• New agency for food, drug safety in India?

  India will soon have a scientific regulatory agency responsible for the safety of the nation’s domestically produced and imported foods, cosmetics, drugs, biologics, medical devices, and radiological products. Proposed on the lines of Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in USA and the Centre for Disease Control, the new agency to be set up under the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will be responsible for promoting and protecting public health by ensuring that nation’s food supply and cosmetics are safe and honestly labelled. Sources said that the “implementation of this project will be started after the final approval of the 12th plan by the National Development Council, which is expected shortly.”

  • 10/12/2012

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • India
    • Food Safety
    • Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
    • WHO
    • Drugs
    • Food Process Industry
    • Health

• Sri Lanka to initiate a five-year national health plan

  Sri Lanka will set up a five-year national health program from next year to provide and maintain health service according to national and international standards. Director General of Health Services Dr.

  • 10/12/2012

  • Colombo Page (Sri Lanka)
  • • Sri Lanka
    • South Asia
    • Health
    • Health Care

• Doha climate conference opens gateway to greater ambition and action on climate change

  Countries have successfully launched a new commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, agreed a firm timetable to adopt a universal climate agreement by 2015 and agreed a path to raise necessary ambition

  • 08/12/2012

  • UNFCCC
  • • Climate Change
    • COP 18 (Doha)
    • UNFCCC
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Climate Agreements
    • Finance
    • Developing Countries
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Carbon Capture and Storage
    • Technology Transfer

• Warnings of climate science - again - written in Doha sand

  While the official UNFCCC negotiations made some limited progress, encouraging developments on the margins give hope that faster progress is possible. On the official side, minor steps were made towards

  • 08/12/2012

  • Climate Analytics
  • • Climate Science
    • COP 18 (Doha)
    • Climate Agreements
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Finance
    • UNFCCC

• A bitter harvest

  Sugar cane farmers of Maharashtra's sugar cooperative sector find themselves at a losing end. (Editorial)

  • 08/12/2012

  • Economic and Political Weekly
  • • Agriculture
    • Sugarcane
    • Maharashtra
    • Cooperatives
    • Farmers
    • Conflicts
    • Private Sector
    • Politics

• Aadhaar-enabled payments for NREGA workers

  Timely and reliable payment of wages under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is meant to be one of the initial applications of Aadhaar - the unique identity number that is supposed to be given

  • 08/12/2012

  • Economic and Political Weekly
  • • National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
    • Ranchi (D)
    • Corruption
    • Poverty
    • Jharkhand

• Poverty matters

  Other than in China, where the reduction in poverty has been spectacular, progress in poverty reduction in the world during the past three decades has been modest. This slow progress and the decline in

  • 08/12/2012

  • Economic and Political Weekly
  • • Poverty
    • Anti-Poverty Programmes
    • Consumption Patterns
    • China
    • India
    • Global
    • Development

• The Bhopal disaster and medical research

  he Supreme Court, in its fi nal order of October 1991, upheld the compensation settlement with Union Carbide which made the Government of India liable for any shortfall in compensation or any new claims

  • 08/12/2012

  • Economic and Political Weekly
  • • Union Carbide
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Supreme Court
    • Compensation
    • Government Of India (GOI)
    • Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR)
    • Medical Research
    • Politics
    • Health Effects
    • Multinational Corporations (MNCs)
    • Industrial Disasters

• The quality of governance: How have Indian states performed?

  There is a core concept of good governance, the combination of authority and responsibility to pursue the common good, that has remained stable over millennia. Building on this concept the paper develops

  • 08/12/2012

  • Economic and Political Weekly
  • • Governance
    • India
    • Development

• State, forests and communities: History of community forest management in colonial Andhra 1800-1947

  The history of communal forest management in south India shows its exclusive nature. The resistance to colonial forest policies forced the administration in the Madras Presidency to look for options to

  • 08/12/2012

  • Economic and Political Weekly
  • • Forest Management
    • India
    • History
    • Forest Policy
    • Forest Villages
    • Nilgiri
    • Cuddapah (D)
    • Kurnool (D)
    • Forest Resources
    • Agriculture
    • Poverty

• The case of LPG

  The use of liquefi ed petroleum gas as a clean cooking fuel increased dramatically between 2007-08 and 2009-10. Its use in rural areas is still confi ned to a minority, but this is changing rapidly. The

  • 08/12/2012

  • Economic and Political Weekly
  • • LPG
    • Household Energy
    • India
    • Energy Policy
    • Subsidies
    • Statistics

• Bengaluru’s stinking problem

  The Karnataka High Court has made waste-segregation at source mandatory. Will this rid the city of its garbage woes, asks Imran Khan IN THE past four months, Bengaluru, the ‘garden city’, has turned into

  • 08/12/2012

  • Tehelka (New Delhi)
  • • Karnataka
    • Bangalore (T)
    • High Court
    • Garbage
    • Landfill
    • Waste Management

• An estimated 20 to 40% of fruit and vegetables are rejected as they do not match the supermarkets' excessively strict cosmetic standards

  An estimated 20 to 40% of fruit and vegeta bles are rejected as they do not match the supermarkets' exces sively strict cosmetic standards British supermarkets have eased their rules to allow farmers

  • 07/12/2012

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Food Standards
    • Vegetables
    • United Kingdom (UK)

• Shettar to brief Manmohan today on release of water to Tamil Nadu

  Following the Supreme Court’s directive to Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from December 5 to 9, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has decided to take a delegation to Delhi on Friday

  • 07/12/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Cauvery
    • Water Distribution
    • Tamil Nadu
    • Supreme Court
    • Water Disputes
    • Karnataka

• Don’t depend on government alone for water, Alva tells villagers

  Rajasthan Governor Margaret Alva has laid emphasis on “collective effort” by government agencies, and civil society and voluntary groups for environment protection and water conservation to ensure availability

  • 07/12/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Water Management
    • Rajasthan
    • Water Harvesting
    • Water Conservation
    • Awards

• Longer use ups cancer drug effect

  A massive 15-year-long international study, with significant contribution from Indian doctors has found that the most common drug against breast cancer — Tamoxifen, used in women with ERpositive (oestrogen

  • 07/12/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Cancer
    • Drugs
    • Health Effects
    • Medical Research
    • India
    • Global

• Plastic bag ban: HC asks if govt conducted study

  The Delhi high court on Thursday asked the Delhi government if any study was conducted before banning manufacture and use of plastic bags. A bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai

  • 07/12/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Plastics
    • High Court
    • Delhi
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Waste Management

• Doha talks to overshoot Fri deadline

  The ongoing UN negotiations on climate change are all set to stretch beyond the scheduled deadline of Friday, thanks to the developed world, which has refused to deliver on finance, equity, adaptation

  • 07/12/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • COP 18 (Doha)
    • Climate Change
    • Emission Targets
    • United States Of America (US)
    • European Union (EU)