Environment

In September this year a summit will be held in New York under the auspices of the United Nations to review the progress made during the last 10 years in achieving the targets set under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by member nations of the UN in 2000.

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TOM ZELLER JR. NEW YORK Blasting off mountain tops to reach coal in Appalachia or churning out millions tonnes of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists’ biggest industrial irritants. But they are also legal and lucrative. For a growing number of banks, however, that does not seem to matter.

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The Supreme Court today decided to review its 1996 judgement in the Bhopal gas case, following which a local court had imposed a two-year jail sentence on Keshub Mahindra and six others who were executives of Union Carbide at the time of the tragedy.

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Krishnadas Rajagopal New Delhi: Fourteen years after it described the Bhopal gas leak disaster as an act of negligence, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to re-open its September 1996 judgement, a rarest-of-rare step, to assess if the criminal liability of Union Carbide employees extended to culpable homicide. A Special Bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia and his two seniormost colleagues in

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Maritime States will prepare oil spill contingency plan: Vasan Chennai: Union Ministry of Shipping will issue guidelines to major ports and State maritime boards to ensure safe and prompt handling of hazardous chemical goods, according to G.K.

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The state government will not be able to go ahead with its proposal to relax silence zone regulations imposed around educational institutions, anti-noise campaigners said.

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SHWETA KAMAT PANJIM, AUG 30 Environmentalists in Goa have appealed to the people to opt for eco-friendly methods to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi this year. Charting out various ways that can help you have pollution-free Chovoth (Ganesh Chaturthi), the environmentalists feel that changing social ethos are increasingly casting its shadow over the celebration making it inimical to environment. Reno

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JAMMU, Aug 29: Malhotra Book Depot (MBD) group largest publishing house in the country today launched MBD writewell- recycled eco-friendly notebooks and MBD Printwell- recycled eco-friendly copier in the state, here today. Prof Desh Bandhu Gupta, chairman, Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education was the chief guest on the occasion.

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