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Ethiopia's Gibe 3 dam endangers Kenyas Lake Turkana
Lake Turkana is a miraculous anomaly of life-giving water in a parched and unforgiving land. Formed millions of years ago in the tectonic upheavals that created East Africa
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In Bopodi, PMC deprives residents of toilet facility
Forty persons, including women from nine families living, at survey number 2A/8 on Bhau Patil Road in Bopodi are using nearby open ground as public toilet facility. This was after the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) demolished a public toilet they were using for last 25 years without making any alternate arrangement on January 18. The toilet was constructed by the PMC on a private land. NCP corporator Anil Bhosale later purchased the land and asked builder Ravindra Sankala to develop the site.
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CBI chief attacks US trade policies
Americans may be brave but they don't live in the land of the free, the head of Britain's biggest employers' group says in a fierce attack on U.S. President George W. Bush's trade policies. Speaking
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Bricks, motor slow poison for Mumbai greens
If the state government has its way, a large tract of no-development zone (NDZ) land adjoining the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in P-North Ward, Malad village, will soon be turned into a residential
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Major threats to eco-region identified
Aggravating water quality, besides short supply of freshwater, land clearance and over-harvesting of resources, are among major risks to Indus delta eco-region (IDER), according to World Wide Fund
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Community reserves to protect Olive Ridleys
The Goa Forest Department will acquire about 16 hectares of land adjacent to two prominent beaches, Galgibag and Morjim, to provide safe nesting areas to the Olive Ridleys. Also, the department is
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Govt mulls changes in tenancy laws to help contract farming
The limitation of tenancy laws have multiplied litigations in Goa State creating a fright in the minds of farmers and land owners, and the government is looking into these laws to introduce changes
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'Cluster approach' mooted for tribal development
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has asked the state governments to identify thrust areas for each tribal region and prepare land and water management schemes that consider village as a unit instead of
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Mandatory CSR spending for coal mining firms
The Union government may make it mandatory for coal mining companies to spend a part of their net profit on the welfare of local people affected by the activities. The move, a part of the competitive bidding guidelines being framed by the coal ministry, is in line with the ongoing wave of policy decisions aimed at integrating land losers in development projects within the broader
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More than DP, city is in dire need of town-planning schemes
Pune: It is common knowledge that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has failed to fully execute the 1987 Development Plan (DP) in the past 25 years. Against this backdrop, many town-planning
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Panel for Renewal of Posco’s Green Nod
Korean steelmaker says the original size of the plant will remain unchanged An expert panel has recommended renewal of environment clearance for Posco’s proposed steel project in Odisha, raising hopes that the Korean company will be able to start work on its much-delayed plant.
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State of the voluntary carbon markets 2013
Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace released State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2013 report in Barcelona, Spain. According to the report, corporate buyers are flocking to voluntary carbon markets despite
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Move to convert Safdarjung Airport into green belt
There is a move from the Urban Development Ministry to convert Safdarjung Airport, a 180-acre land, into a green belt and landscaped garden. The airport, where flying began decades ago, has been
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Delta farmers continue opposition to coal-bed methane project
Protests staged at various places in delta districts Cadres of the CPI-affiliated Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam took out rallies and staged demonstrations at various places in Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts protesting against the proposed coal-bed methane (CBM) project from the delta districts.
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Leveraging urbanization in South Asia: managing spatial transformation for prosperity and livability- Conference Edition
<p>Despite progress, South Asia has failed to capitalize on urbanization says the World Bank report released this week. Instead of using increasing urbanization as a vehicle to convey prosperity to a greater number of people, the countries of the region have “difficulty in dealing with the pressures that increased urban populations put on infrastructure, basic services, land, housing and the environment,” which in turn has fostered “messy and hidden” urbanization</p>
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Naxal problem rooted in Govt's 52 yrs failure: Just 4.2% land distributed
Naxalites may be arrogating to themselves the role of Andhra Pradesh in planting red flags on 'surplus land' for redistribution but there is precious little that the State can show for its own
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Seafood industry to tighten norms
As food norms are becoming stricter the world over, the seafood industry is out to enforce a system of traceability from farm and landing centres to the factory. Already, importing countries have
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Border fencing heaps misery on farmers
About 20-30,000 Kanals of cultivable land from Hamirpur Nawa to Chaprial villages in Khour block in Jammu and Kashmir is lying useless because of upheaval brought by the border conflict. According to
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Increase in amount of untreated effluents flowing into waterways in Erode district
Illegal textile processing units pose a threat to farm sector in the region The discharge of untreated effluents into the waterways in the district has increased substantially in the last few weeks as many unauthorised textile processing units have come up in Erode and its suburbs.