Latha Jishnu / New Delhi December 25, 2009, 0:51 IST

Why would the government want to rush through a badly drafted law, full of ambiguities? This is the question worrying R. Sreedhar, director of the Academy of Mountain Environics, a well-known trust promoting sustainable development solutions, about the National Green Tribunal Bill, 2009.

SOMETIMES THE future stands before us in ways we do not fully discern. It could be a metaphor, a shadow, an outline of a form of problem-solving; it could be a kaleidoscope of variations. The danger is that we might over-concretise it and think of it as something specific, local and concrete.

Think of three ways of linking at industry and land today. Each is a circus of many events.

Latha Jishnu / New Delhi December 18, 2009, 0:59 IST

Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh

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Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has asked the Centre to review the Ken-Betwa river-linking project in Madhya Pradesh in view of the ecological implications.

In a letter to Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mr. Ramesh suggested that it

Amid the ongoing global debate on climate change, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), has said it will launch paperless procedures in matters relating to domain name disputes from tomorrow.

Kirtika Suneja / New Delhi December 10, 2009, 0:17 IST

The National Green Tribunal Bill, 2009 (NGT), will be tabled tomorrow in the Lok Sabha for discussion and on December 21 in the Rajya Sabha.

SHILLONG, Dec 7: Meghalaya Governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary today underscored the importance of preserving the environment by shifting from outdated method to a scientific mode of coal mining in Jaintia Hills.

KOCHI: The Green Bench of the Kerala High Court, which deals with petitions pertaining to environmental issues, started functioning on Friday.

The Bench, comprising Chief Justice S R Bannurmath and Justice Thottathil Radhakrishan, will be holding sittings every Friday.

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: India has sought help from the United States for setting up the National Environmental Protection Authority (NEPA) on the lines of a similar agency in the U.S.