Being rated ecology-friendly is both needed and profitable.
Green ratings were a no-no for most Indian companies till a few years earlier. But the ratings have now graduated from just being an initiative of non-government organisations to something both the government and industry would like to embrace fast.
The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee of the Union environment ministry today gave a green signal for genetically modified brinjal (Bt brinjal). Three members dissented.
Jairam Ramesh Such brinjals would soon be on dinner tables in the country if the GEAC view is upheld by the ministry. Minister Jairam Ramesh said he would examine the report before deciding.
Transparency is the newest item on the agenda of many Rajasthan ministers and MPs. C P Joshi, the man who lost the Rajasthan Assembly elections last year by just one vote, to later become the Union minister for rural development, started the trend.
The first meeting of the newly-reconstituted Central Employment Guarantee Council last week, meant to oversee the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, saw two prominent members, Jean Dr
A recent report says massive hydro-power projects in the Himalayan countries will spell doom for both the mountains and the dams
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi May 10, 2009, 0:19 IST
