Unsustainable practices seem to be a suicidal trait in the fashionable development concepts of today

A ONCE-peaceful herd of about 150 elephants in southern Sri Lanka has turned violent, destroying property and killing humans in a last ditch attempt to save its habitat, writes Mallika Wanigasundara

INDIAN aloe (Aloe vera), a common plant that is abundant in rocky areas with little rainfall and is used in cosmetics across the world and also yields a strong laxative, now finds a new use as a

WHILE burning sugarcane leaves makes harvesting the stalks easier, the practice is damaging to the environment. So Cinecana, the Colombian sugarcane industry's research arm, has come up with a way to

Hampered by a Supreme Court order, UP pollution control authorities are finding it difficult to close a Birla sugar unit emitting acidic effluents into a Gomati tributary.

Sugarcane farmers in rural Karnataka are making jaggery using an efficient and smoke free stove designed and promoted by a school headmaster.

Taking yet another step closer to its target of becoming power surplus, Uttar Pradesh government signed two MoUs with sugar major Bajaj Hindusthan and Parekh Aluminex for the generation of 1,980 mw and 250 mw power in the state on Tuesday.

SUGAR COMPANY TO BUILD A SERIES OF PLANTS IN UTTAR PRADESH
Our Bureau LUCKNOW

SUGAR major Bajaj Hindusthan has committed 22,500 crore investment in power projects in Uttar Pradesh over the next 4-5 years.
The company on Tuesday entered into an MoU with the UP government to set up a 1,980 MW thermal power plant in Bargarh area of Chitrakoot district.

RICH DIVIDENDS FOR OMCs, NO REAL BENEFIT FOR CONSUMERS & FARMERS

ONE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION TO ASK over ethanol pricing even as a panel chaired by Planning Commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri examines a

Ajay Modi / New Delhi September 3, 2010, 1:15 IST

Offers 1,000 million litres ethanol to OMCs.

The sugar industry has offered to supply around 1,000 million litres ethanol to oil marketing companies for blending it with petrol.

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