India

 Salvaged sands

One man commission's rebuff forces Goa government to jettison proposal to privatise beach

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
Frederick Noronha
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Politics, Pollution Control, Ecosystems, Land Degradation, Fisherfolk, Private Sector, NGO, India, Goa
India

 INDIA

• The Supreme Court has asked the chief secretary of Bihar to file an affidavit regarding the killing of District Forest Officer (DFO) Sanjay Singh by " perhaps those indulging in illegal

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Pesticides, Mining, Zoos, Medical Research, Finance, Private Sector, Genetic Cloning, Genetic Engineering, Research Agencies, Legislation, Supreme Court, NGO, India, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Toxic Wastes
India

 Curative resolve

A dose of political will, backed by communication skills, can help combat infectious diseases

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Malaria, Health Care, Medical Research, Infectious Diseases, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Finance, Poverty, Private Sector, WHO, NGO, Africa, China, India, Global, Globalisation
Poverty

 NIGERIA

In line with its deregulation of the country's downstream oil industry, Nigeria is inviting bids to build independent oil refineries. The new private refine

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Trade, Imports, Petrochemical Industry, Private Sector, Africa, Nigeria, United States Of America (US)
Health

 Protests drowned

despite protests by environmentalists against exploiting the northern Pacific coast for tourism, the Mexican government is going ahead with its plan to develop a beach resort in the northwestern

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Beaches, Tourism, Private Sector, Mexico, California
India

 Manipulating research

Research is often like an iceberg. The public interest can just be the visible tip with the invisible bulk being the private interest

Publication Date: 
14/10/2001
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Health Effects, CNG, Drug Industry, Finance, Public Sector, Private Sector, Science, Genetic Engineering, Research, Research Agencies, United States Of America (US), Delhi
Sanitation

 HEALTHY CHANGES

The Nepalese

Publication Date: 
14/09/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Care, Private Sector, Nepal
Economy

 Profiting from disaster

Zoramthanga , the chief minister of Mizoram, has many reasons to reminisce the birth of his party, the Mizo National Front, an insurgent group till 1986. About fifty years back, the famine that ensued the bamboo flowering led to

Publication Date: 
14/09/2001
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Land Use, Soil Erosion, Cash Crops, Bamboo, Development, Economy, Private Sector, Legislation, Governance, Mizoram, Climate
Environment

 Getting files that matter

Goa s experiment with the Right to Information has a lesson or two for the country

Publication Date: 
29/06/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Private Sector, Information, Legislation, Right To Information (RTI), Political Parties, India, Goa, Corruption
India

 Derailed

Tamil Nadu s initiative to promote wind energy

Publication Date: 
14/06/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Energy Policy, Wind Energy, Energy Technology, Private Sector, India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu

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