Growth commission report offers some lessons for India

Speaking at World Convention on Climate Change at Palampur in Himachal Pradesh, former prime minister of Sweden Dr Ola Ullsten said that the key to long-term environment conservation and sustenance was to examine and incorporate pricing mechanisms for natural resources. Addressing policy makers, civil society groups and environment experts at the convention held recently, Ullsten spoke about the increasing chasm between the supply of financial and natural resources.

Panaji: The Centre has conveyed to Goa government that there is no provision to denotify approved and notified Special Economic Zones (SEZs).

With Assembly elections just round the corner the MCD on Monday, made another populist announcement. According to the civic agency, a self-occupied residential property of any original owner in the rural or urban villages would be exempted from paying property tax.

The draft transport agreement between the UP and Delhi governments is a step ahead for the Environmental Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority appointed by the Supreme Court to monitor government projects with the aim of preventing pollution by decongesting the city. Stating that for interstate public transport, nothing short of CNG would be allowed in the NCR, EPCA chairman Bhure Lal said the idea behind the agreement was not just to facilitate movement but also to get more people to use public transport.

Agreement Includes Plying Of Buses, Autos And Taxis Between States In a bid to ease the hardships faced by commuters travelling between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh daily, the two governments on Monday signed a draft interstate transport agreement. This agreement expands the existing roadmap for movement of public transport, including buses, taxis and autorickshaws in both states and the National Capital Region.

It might be a rather tiny piece in an ambitious mission but without a semiconductor chip, a satellite or any other communication device cannot transmit or receive data. Though developed Western countries have imposed complex restrictions on the supply of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) chips to India, a Defence Research and Development Organization lab has, despite US sanctions, developed and supplied GaAs devices for military and space technology purposes.

While the government talks about saving prime agricultural land from industry, a pitched battle between Alphonso growers and a power project developer is raging in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district. The environment ministry has cleared a 1,200MW thermal power plant by JSW Energy Limited in the heart of the famous mango-exporting belt despite admitting that the studies to understand the impact of pollution from the thermal plant do not exist yet.

And now an "aam admi' price rise index? Congress is witnessing a demand for a separate index to measure fluctuations in prices of food items, as it emerges that the Wholesale Price Index does not correctly reflect the prices of commodities which matter most to the common man.