Mayabhushan | Panaji

After having angered the Congress with his

P B Jayakumar / Mumbai August 17, 2010, 0:47 IST

He has been locked in a verbal duel with at least three chief ministers and four of his Cabinet colleagues: Praful Patel, Sharad Pawar, Kamal Nath and P Chidambaram.

PANJIM, AUG 14
The World Bank has feared that rise of one metre sea level across the globe can spell doom for many inhabitants and the impact would be felt by not less than 56 million people.
According to the survey conducted by the World Bank, people from East Asia and Pacific region would be affected by large with rise in sea level by one meter.

PANJIM, AUG 13
Noted environmentalist Sunita Naraine today said that encroaching into the living and life of traditional people on the coastline may lead us to the similar situation like naxalism, which was witnessed after exploitation of rights of forest dwellers.

Lying between development and the deep blue sea, Maharashtra

The Environment and Forest Ministry has decided to amend the Environment (Protection) Act of 1986 to make it more punitive and deterrent and modify the procedure to decide expeditiously penalty and punishment.

Ajai Sreevatsan

CHENNAI: Hundreds of men and women belonging to 14 fishing hamlets from Light House to Kottivakkam in the city on Saturday formed a human chain demanding that the State government drop its proposal to construct an elevated expressway along the Chennai coast.

The fisherfolk who came together under the banner of Meenavar Vaazhvurimai Paadhukaappu Kuzhu, at the Elliots Beach, said the government s

SLUM dwellers facing the danger of eviction sent 100 telegrams to Union Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Friday to cancel the clearance given by the ministry to the elevated Expressway from the port to Maduravoyal, running across the River Cooum.