The International Finance Corporation , the largest private sector lender, has openly admitted its shortcomings on the environmental impact of projects and called for public comments on its policy
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plans to set up a separate joint venture hydro-power company by next year, in a bid to expand its own operations from thermal to the hydel
Despite its extensive coastline and immense potential, India's contribution in the global aquaculture shrimp production was a meagre five per cent during
Consumers groups are up in arms at what they term unregulated import of hazardous chemicals into India from other developing countries and has asked the government to take stern action against those
A recent survey by the Orissa Labour Department on child labour has been disputed by an NGO which claims the State Goverbment's estimate of the number of children working in hazardous units is flawed
International glass manufacturing giants, Owens- Coring of the US, Saint Gobain Vitrage, France and Pilkington Glass of the UK have together filed 30 of the total 100 patents applied for in the
Uncertainties associated with the constantly evolving science have been delaying the process of fixing environmental standards, the lack of which is being sorely felt in these times when, under the
Incidence of cardiac ailments in Indian urban centres has been growing alarmingly in recent years. According to Colonel A.K. Chatterjee, general administrator of the B.M. Birla Heart Research Centre
A leading industry chamber has called for simplification of pollution control procedures in Haryana, saying implementation of pollution laws was causing a lot of hardship to industries in the
