CSE warns against environmental debacle in Indian cities if resource guzzling and wastes in the building construction sector is not minimised.

Indian cement industry is the second largest in the world with total installed cement capacity of about 323.02 million tonnes per year (as of March 2011) with annual growth rate of 9% during the five year period 2006-2011.

United States court order on Bhopal Gas Disaster dated 26/06/2012.

The significance of Rio + 20 does not lie in any document but in the new direction provided to global governance, whose focus should be on patterns of natural resource use, and not just on natural capital, to ensure human well being.

Document contains the Statement of Prime Minister of India delivered at the Plenary of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20 Summit), Rio de Janeiro on June 21, 2012.

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Document contains the full text of Speech of Ms. Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Environment & Forests, Government of India, delivered at High Level Round Table on “Looking at the way forward in implementing the expected outcomes of the Conference” on 20 June 2012 at 4.30 - 7.30 p.m. at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rare earths are an important, non-renewable natural resource with increasingly wider applications in economic and social development. China is among the countries with relatively rich rare earth reserves. China has become the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of rare earth products.

In exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) of section 15 and section 23C of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), the Governor of Haryana hereby makes the following rules for regulating the grant of various forms of mineral concessions, storage and transportation of minerals, and prevention of ill

Document contains opening remarks by Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of State for Environment and Forests at the Media Interaction, held at Rio de Janeiro on June 20, 2012.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 15 of the Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Act. 1957, (Central Act 67 of 1957), the State Government hereby makes the following rules for regulating the grant of quarry

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