The launch of the UNDP project in Ranchi on Tuesday.

Ranchi, Sept. 15: To conserve and record the state

K.V. Prasad

NEW DELHI: The Union Government has begun review of 70 strategically important roads along the Sino-Indian border. Their construction has been held up on account of delay in environmental clearance.

Praveen Kumar Singh

New Delhi: The environment ministry

Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh has invited protests from the victims and activists of the Bhopal gas tragedy as also from the Bharatiya Janshakti, Shiv Sena and Hindu Manch for sound-bytes lasting for less than half-a-minute.

BHOPAL: Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy burnt an effigy of Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh here on Monday.

The victims had apparently been offended by the Minister

Though Governments in India are elected for a five-year term, the first few months set the tone and provide early hints about the course it plans to take.

Sudhir Singh

IN AN attempt to rid itself of the obstructionist tag, India has indicated its willingness to voluntarily take on unilateral mitigation measures with broadly indicative targets as part of its response to climate change. The government is considering a law on the lines of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, which would have broad indicative targets, but not mandatory targets.

Mahim Pratap Singh

Bhopal: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said he was not very keen on the Madhya Pradesh government

Barely months after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh broke the impasse on the Navi Mumbai airport by clearing the amendment of the Coastal Regulation Zone Act to permit construction of greenfield airports, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has locked horns with the Maharashtra government and the Civil Aviation Ministry by reopening the debate on the selection of the site itself.