Environmental problems in Pakistan have grabbed media headlines, but never the serious attention of its leaders. The country s brief rendezvous with environmental concern, during Benazir Bhutto s last stint as Prime Minister, has also abruptly ended wit

A so called farmer's cooperative fertiliser company is ruining agricultural land in Uttar Pradesh

The end of 1992 saw advocates of development-at-any-cost increasingly impatient with the Union ministry for environment and forests (MEF), whom they accused of blocking development projects worth

Centre for Science & Enviornment's Green Rating Project: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar releases latest report on ratings of fertilizer sectors.

The government plans to provide kerosene, cooking gas and fertiliser subsidy to the poor by direct cash transfers on a pilot basis before the end of the current calendar year, 2011.

For the current year, according to Budget documents, petroleum and fertiliser subsidies add up to Rs 53,000 crore.

The Finance Ministry today set up a task force under Nandan Nilekani, chairman of the Unique Iden

The government is looking at scrapping 5% customs duty on liquified natural gas (LNG) as it seeks to help user industries like power and fertiliser producers that are facing reduced availability of natural gas due to declining gas production in the country.

New Delhi: India

Consumer-connect, sustainable strategies and adopting new technologies can salvage the sector from its faceless existence

INSTITUTIONS make choices at forks on their journey and embark on distinctive trajectories. The choice made is influenced by its culture and mindset.

Ajay Modi / New Delhi April 2, 2010, 0:46 IST

Gas production surpassed oil for the first time in 2009-10.

Natural gas from Reliance Industries

The study was under taken with an objective to assess the impact of self-developed Environmental information empowerment package (EIEP) on environment protection through gain in knowledge of farm families. The present study was conducted in rural areas of Rajasthan. A sample of a mixed group of 30 willing farm men and women were identified data was collected by the self-developed questionnaire.

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