Monthly Archives: October 2010
Realising Low Carbon Infrastructure Dream
India would need major policy and regulatory changes including standards, taxation of pollution and tailored incentives to ensure infrastructure development follows a low carbon route. These are among the many proposals put forward in the India Infrastructure Report (IIR) 2010, released … Continue reading
India Signs Nuclear Liability Pact
In a significant step which will enable it to engage in international nuclear commerce, India on Wednesday signed the Convention on Supplementary Compensation, which sets parameters on a nuclear operator’s financial liability, at the IAEA in Vienna.
Women block mining traffic at Sanquelim
About nine women from Navelim-Sanquelim on Wednesday morning blocked mining traffic for about four hours to protest against mining pollution.
Forest Alert
Sep 15, 2010 From Down to Earth Few committees have been as forthright as the N C Saxena Committee on the violation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) by the very authorities which are charged with upholding them—the state governments. In its report … Continue reading
Tribals beaten out of forestland
Sep 30, 2010 From Down to Earth THE forest departments of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are forcibly evicting tribals from forestland. Around 50 huts of the Korku community in Madhya Pradesh were demolished on August 29. On July 30, forest … Continue reading
Clampdown on Vedanta
Sep 15, 2010 from Down to Earth The illegality of the expansion of Vedanta’s alumina refinery in Lanjigarh has turned into a core concern for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MOEF). The ministry’s stop-order came in the wake of … Continue reading
Warning from Leh
A cloud burst over arid Himalayan town of Leh in Ladakh on August 6, pouring some 250 mm of rain in an hour. The sudden downpour triggered flash floods and mudslides, killing over 180 people and wiping out the old … Continue reading
Protest brewing in Vanxim
Protests against ‘mega projects’ have a habit of springing up when least expected and this has more to do with the quite and silent ways in which the Town and Country Planning Department operates.
China’s glaciers may shrink 27 percent by 2050: Report
The average area of glaciers in western China might shrink by 27.2 percent by 2050 because of global warming, damaging crop production and worsening droughts, according to a report released at the UN climate talks in north China’s Tianjin Municipality.
The haves, the have-nots and the dreamless dead
In 2007, when the world was on the brink of financial crisis, U.S. income inequality hit its highest mark since 1928, just before the Great Depression. Economists are only beginning to study the parallels between the 1920s and the most … Continue reading