India

 After dosage

Will the idea of eco development survive?

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30/07/2004
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Ecology, Periyar, Forest Resources, Forest Villages, Development, National Parks, Buxa SA, Biodiversity, Research, NGO, India, Karnataka, West Bengal, Tribals
India

 Hold tight

Behold: eco development is here, again

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30/07/2004
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India

 Dead end

The sight of environment-friendly electric trams trundling along Kolkata's chaotic roads could soon be a thing of the past. The West Bengal government and Kolkata Municipal Corpo

Publication Date: 
29/06/2003
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Transport, Road Transport, India, West Bengal
India

 Left unaddressed

Rehabilitation issue ignored in Kolkata s eviction drive

Publication Date: 
29/06/2003
Satarupa Joardar
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Slums, Sanitation, Rehabilitation, Supreme Court, High Court, NGO, India, West Bengal, Calcutta (D)
India

 Pandas set free

The Darjeeling Zoo plans to release two female red pandas into the Singhalila National Park, which is located in West Bengal, in an attempt to increase the numbers of this endangered animal. Two

Publication Date: 
14/06/2003
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Wildlife, Singhalila NP, India, West Bengal, Darjiling
Poverty

 Burdensome load

Laid off tea workers fall back on forests in West Bengal

Publication Date: 
14/06/2003
Debasis Sarkar
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Tea, Agricultural Labourers, Poverty, Unemployment, West Bengal, Darjiling
Environment

 Book review: Profound primer

Providing a good text is the primary step, now that environmental studies have become a scheduled subject at the graduate level in all universities in West Bengal. This book by two professors at Kalyani and Calcutta Universities is probably the first comp

Publication Date: 
14/05/2003
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Environment Politics, Pollution, Environmental Science, Media, West Bengal
Fisheries

 The devil and the 'deep sea' fishing

In the Indian context, the term deep sea has very little to do with depth. It refers to India s Exclusive Economic Zone: the 188 nautical miles of waters beyond the 12 mile territorial sea. Soon after the declaration of the Indian EEZ in 1976, there we

Publication Date: 
27/02/2003
Sebastian Mathew
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Fisheries, Fish Marketing, Fishing Technology, Taiwan, India, Gujarat, Maharashtra, West Bengal
India

 Month of the dead leopard

One month in the life of an endangered species in India

Publication Date: 
30/01/2003
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Forests, Endangered Species, Leopard, Wildlife Trade, India, Gujarat, West Bengal
Environment

 Tangible shift

Bioprocessing - the Indian leather industry braces itself for an environmental facelift

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
Kushal P S Yadav
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Environment, Leather Industry, Trade, Solid Waste, Biotechnology, Legislation, Government Of India (GOI), Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Developing Countries, Waste Recycling

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