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 Environmentalists flayed

NEPAL'S carpet manufacturers have alleged that some environmental groups are the booming carpet industry in the name of a cleaner environment. Bijay Bahadur Shrestha, former president of the Central

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
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Environment, Textile Industry, Nepal
India

 An ardent activist passes away

With the demise of Sunil K Roy, often described as "a soldier, diplomat, administrator and environmentalist, all in one", environment has lost one of its best friends. Starting his career in the army

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
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Environment, Scientists, CSE, India
India

 Bhopal gas victims fade into the background

Most candidates for the Bhopal North constituency are ready to overlook the fate of victims of the world's worst industrial disaster.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Environment

 Wanted: professionals who care

Lack of ecological concerns among today's professionals have led to a dichotomy between development and the environment.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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India

 Ladies of the lake

ON NOVEMBER 7, residents of Vivekanandapally in Calcutta staved off yet another attempt by a group of real estate developers, which has been trying to fill up a shallow 0.134 hectare lake in the area

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Environment, Urban Development, Women, Legislation, India
India

 Stuck in small pockets

Several colony specific environmental problems surfaced during the election campaign in Delhi and that's where they remained.

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14/12/1993
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India

 The right issue, the wrong place

The pollution of Betwa river figured prominently in the election campaign in two constituencies in Madhya Pradesh, but was ignored in the worst hit villages.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Mining

 Licence opposed

THE ENVIRONMENTAL Foundation Ltd (EFL) of Sri Lanka has threatened the country's Central Environment Authority (CEA) with legal action for becoming an "advocate for industrialists" by granting

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Environment, Sri Lanka
Environment

 Tolba awarded

THE FORMER executive director of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP), Mostafa K Tolba, has been awarded the UNEP Sasakawa Environment Prize for 1993. Misael Pastrana-Borrero, former president of

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Environment

 A timely exposition on petroleum

INDIA'S interest in petroleum has grown rapidly. Understandably so, because the investments made are large and the returns fair, and could be even more attractive if we priced it properly. But,

Publication Date: 
29/11/1993
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Pollution, Petrol, Oil Exploration, Petrochemical Industry, Science, Technology

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