ENVIRONMENT Minister Jairam Ramesh renewed his attack on the use of diesel of luxury cars and shrugged off protests by some manufacturers of Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV), saying the government controls the price of the fuel only to help farmers, not the rich.

The government earns tax revenue from diesel sales, but does not allow its retail price to rise to the prevailing international leve

Arguing that since the concept of

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) today pulled up the environment ministry for failing to implement its ambitious projects of afforestation, conservation of biodiversity, pollution control and spreading awareness among the people besides lack of monitoring and manpower.

The CAG report, which was tabled in Parliament, found that money allotted under various environmental schemes had been

In unprecedented distancing from the government by a key minister and questioning its development works in the strategic North-East and Bhutan, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has taken up with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demands for a review of all hydel projects in the region and a

The environment and forests ministry (MoEF) is imposing yet another policy which will delay progress of the power ministry

Bhubaneswar: Unable to get clearance for allocating coal blocks from the environment ministry, the Power Finance Corporation (PFC) is expected to defer for the third time the bidding process for its 4,000 MW ultra mega power project at Bedabahal in Odisha, by two months.

The preliminary bidding process for the project may be extended for the third time to November on account of environmental is

Union Ministry holds up eco clearance for various projects

Main sources of pollution are industries, municipal garbage and hospital waste

Industries agree to spend Rs.

P Vinod Kumar, Kavitha Venkatraman

Chennai: Decks have been cleared for the fast-tracking of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board