The West Bengal Rural Energy Development Corporation (WBREDC), set up early this year, seems a non-starter. The corporation is yet to get an office to operate

The lenders of the Dabhol power project have insisited that no new lender would enter the consortium for funding the 1,444 mw phase II of the project. This was stated by Deepak Parekh, chairman of

The Government plans to prohibit location of landfill sites within 10 kms of the airports/airbases in the direction of the fly-in tunnel, and within thre kms in other directions. Permission of the

Analysis of ground water samples collected from Haryana, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh has showed presence of mercury at "dangerously high levels."The Centre for Science and Environment, a

study: Influenza vaccinations can raise the risk of people getting a rare temporary paralysis known as Guillian-Barre syndrome by 70 per cent to one per million, researchers said in New England

India is keen to encourage recycling of lead and zinc to meet growing demand but the trade should take steps to conform to environmental norms, government officials said. "My ministry firmly supports

The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources has firmed up plans to set up the world's largest hybrid solar power plant, the first of its kind. The 140MW project is coming up in Rajasthan at an

A notification may soon be issued that will make compulsory the mixing of 25 per cent flyash in brick making for all brick kilns located within 50 km of all thermal power plants. This will apply to

The estimates drawn by industrialised countries and the Indian manufacturers differ on the amount of compensation for phasing out chloroflurocarbons (CFC) in accordance with the Montreal Protocol of

The measures mooted by the Union environment ministry and the Delhi Administration to control pollution in the capital may not amount to a sufficient remedial package for a seemingly insurmountable

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