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.

Nagpur: It was as brazen a violation of rules as you would ever see. A Maharashtra minister entered a cage of tiger cubs at the Maharajbagh zoo in Nagpur along with his supporters on Independence Day and petted the animals as TV cameras rolled. It made national headlines.

New Delhi: Approximately three months prior to the commencement of mega Copenhagen meet on climate change, India on Tuesday listed out its key expectations, including financial compensation for its afforestation initiatives, extention of clean development mechanism (CDM) and an international agreement on green technology transfer from the developed to developing countries.