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 High risk high rises

The Delhi Fire Service wants legislation with "more teeth" to bring to book the owners of more than 100 high-rise buildings in the Capital for not installing basic fire safety measures. Noncompliance

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
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High Rise Building, Legislation, Delhi
India

 Money from the sky

India's postal department is going high-tech. In March-April, it will launch pilot projects in Delhi, Madras, Bangalore, Lucknow and Patna to transmit money orders by satellite. Miniature earth

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
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Rural Habitat, Space Technology, India
India

 Japanese unhappy about resettlement plans

The Japanese have refuted Indian press reports that they were satisfied with R&R measures for the Narmada dam project

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Kavita Charanji, T P Sudha
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Narmada Valley Project, Rehabilitation, Aid, World Bank
India

 Belur Math endangered

After the Victoria Memorial, it is the turn of the Belur Math, headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission, to be an environmentally endangered landmark near Calcutta. Air pollution is causing sandstone

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
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Air Pollution, Industry, India
India

 Demystifying the deluge

There is growing evidence that deforestation in the hills does not always swell rivers

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
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Rivers, Deforestation, Floods, Science And Technology, Research, Rainfall
India

 The case of pollution control offenders

GIVEN the state of pollution in Indian cities and rivers, most people would conclude that nothing is being done to control pollution. But figures have an unusual knack of belying common thinking.

Publication Date: 
Monday, March 14, 1994
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Pollution Control, River Pollution, Air Pollution, Industry, India, Statistics
India

 Community enterprise unlimited

Environmental management invariably raises complex and difficult issues. Economists usually tend to differ with environmentalists. While economists tend to look at the short-term, environmentalists

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14/03/1994
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Environment, Water Harvesting, CSE, Philippines, India, Sustainable Development, Water Management
Wildlife

Tiger conservation through ecodevelopment: a conceptual framework

Protection of the tiger has become an international slogan, especially with the initiation of the Global Tiger Forum, in New Delhi, in 1993. However, the apathy of most governments towards nature and natural resources, and the machinations of various commercial and industrial interest groups are major obstacles to the protection of the tiger.

Publication Date: 
Mar 1994
Shekhar Singh
Indian Institute of Public Administration
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Wildlife, Tiger, Tiger Conservation, India
India

 India will soon play a major role

SIRPA Pietikainen, Finland's environment minister, says the world has quite a few things to learn from India, especially when it comes to environment and more specifically, forests. Eloquent on issues on which there are strong perceptional differences bet

Publication Date: 
27/02/1994
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Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Forest Conservation, Finland, Developing Countries
India

 Reinterpreting Darwin

DID CHARLES Darwin see evolution as "progressive", as being singlemindedly directed toward producing ever more advanced forms of life? Most contemporary scholars say no. But in this daring challenge

Publication Date: 
27/02/1994
Amit Mitra
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