Statistics

Energy insecurity is India s latest tryst with her post liberalised destiny. It began in July 2006. Crude oil prices rose to all time peak, at US $79 a barrel. In India, retail prices of petrol and diesel rose, respectively, 59.6 per cent and 78.8 per cen

Publication Date:

14/02/2007

Author(s): Anumita Roychowdhury

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070215

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Economics, Vehicular Pollution, Petrol, Trade, Energy Policy, Transport, Automobiles, Cars, Oil, Imports, Auto Industry, India, Statistics, Diesel

Energy

Key world energy statistics 2007

Key World Energy Statistics contains timely, clearly-presented data on the supply, transformation and consumption of all major energy sources.

Publication Date:

01/01/2007

Source: OECD

Tags:

Coal, Hydroelectricity, Energy, Oil, Natural Gas, Oil Products, Exports, Imports, Global, Statistics

Economy

SEZ, how special?

Despite having burned its fingers with export processing zones, which mainly involved a number of substantial fiscal benefits, the government has gone into overdrive to push its new policy on special economic zones. The difference, this time around, is th

Publication Date:

14/11/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20061115

pp:

0

Tags:

Land Resources, Land Ownership, Wasteland Development, Trade, Economy, Displacement, Farmers, Economic Development, Poverty, Industry, India, Statistics, Globalisation, Rural Poverty

Wildlife

Windfall loss

Tax breaks Public money for private gain

Publication Date:

14/11/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20061115

pp:

0

Tags:

Land Resources, Land Ownership, Wasteland Development, Trade, Economy, Displacement, Farmers, Economic Development, Poverty, Industry, India, Statistics, Globalisation, Rural Poverty

Industry

New nabobs

Will SEZs be fiefdoms, beyond the law?

Publication Date:

14/11/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20061115

pp:

0

Tags:

Land Resources, Land Ownership, Wasteland Development, Trade, Economy, Displacement, Farmers, Economic Development, Poverty, Industry, India, Statistics, Globalisation, Rural Poverty

India

Centre eases quarantine norms for wheat imports

food and environmental safety in the country has been stoked with the centre's decision to ease the quarantine norms for 5.5 million tonnes of imported wheat. The first tender for this was released

Publication Date:

30/10/2006

Author(s): Sourav Mishra

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pesticides, Weeds, Wheat, Food Policy, Food Prices, Food Standards, Food Adulteration, Trade, Imports, Legislation, India, Statistics

Industry

SEZs get a social face

in orderto allay fears of tax evasion and land grab, the Board of Approval (boa) for special economic zones (sezs) recently issued fresh guidelines for building social infrastructure, hospitals,

Publication Date:

30/10/2006

Author(s): Nidhi Jamwal

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Land Resources, Land Ownership, Renewable Energy, Farmers, Industry, India, Maharashtra, Statistics

Environment

Catchment Area Treatment Plan funds badly spent in Himachal

THE Himachal Pradesh government's attitude towards implementing the Catchment Area Treatment (cat) plan has been described as sluggish by environmentalists. The state government has also been accused

Publication Date:

14/10/2006

Author(s): VIKAS VASUDEVA

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Dams, Afforestation, Hydroelectricity, Nathpa Jhakri HP, Finance, Himachal Pradesh, Statistics