The first assembly of the ongoing Global Environment facility (GEF) has expressed concern over rising illegal trade in ozone depleting chemicals, clorofluoro carbons (CFCs) in developing nations.
The Tamil Nadu government has offered a tariff escalation of 8 per cent per annum to the BOOT (build, own, operate and transfer) operator for the Tiruppur water supply project. This is the first
The Atal Behari Vajpayee Government is actively considering a proposal favouring the setting up a new ministry - to be called the Ministry of International Trade and Cooperation - to evolve a
Claiming success in the implementation of a coal bed methane(CBM) recovery project in China that produced substantial climate change benefits through, the UNDP-GEF is all set to fund a $9.19-million
The summer is hardly on and Kerala has already begun to reel under water scarcity. There are many "contradictions, paradoxes, inconsistencies and, in some cases, mis-placed priorities that have led
Hollywood superstar Richard Gere led a chorus of protests against a suggestion by his Hindi cinema counterpart Vinod Khanna that AIDS victims should be detected in mandatory tests and given identity
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) route in promoting private sector power projects will be totally scrapped, the power minister, Mr Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, said today. "Henceforth, for all
The Union Health Ministry is likely to introduce soon the anti-AIDS drug, AZT, in its national AIDS control programme. Its use, however, is to be confined to preventing the transmission of the
On the eve of the first ever meet of the GEF assembly, environmentalists have voiced resentment against the meagre allotments to Indian environmental projects. They are particularly critical of the
US Filter, one of the largest water treatment firms in the US, Black & Reach, Chesters and some companies from Malaysia, Singapore and Australia are among the 20 companies that have shown interest in
