As nuclear waste maims people, India plans to generate more INDIA intends to increase the share of nuclear power from 3.1 per cent of its total energy generation to 25 per cent by 2050. Six nuclear power reactors are under construction and eight are in the pipeline. While the country plans to expand mining of uranium to feed the reactors, a yet-to-be-released study by the environmental group

If things work according to plan, villages in Jharkhand will soon generate electricity for their own consumption. Dhanbad-based Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research has shown them the way.

The Union forest ministry has given environmental clearance to the proposed expansion plans of Usha Martin Limited

1. STICKING TO A CAUSE
Chipko Movement, 1973

The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources

Bharat Jan Andolan founder and former commissioner of the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Commission, Brahmadeo Sharma, justified the agitation at Kathikund in Dumka.

He said it was wrong on the part of the state government to allow capitalists to start their projects in the rural areas without taking the gram sabha into confidence.

Ranchi, Dec. 24: A day after BJP legislator from Jamshedpur (West) Sarayu Roy demanded a CBI probe into the Ghaturi iron-ore mine controversy, the state government went on the defensive today.

Clay filters promise clean drinking water in villages - Terafil technology to benefit Chakdoha & Chapri in Ghatshila, pilot project to encourage self-employment

Terafil technology will not only ensure clean drinking water in villages but also turn the rural people into entrepreneurs.

Ranchi, Dec. 23: The state may lose most of the already reduced, but yet large, sum of Rs 1,160.13 crore promised to it by the Centre under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

- School bags seventh position in national environment awareness project

ANTARA BOSE

Jamshedpur, Dec. 23: Kerala Public School is set to change the adage