Supreme Court pulled up the Centre for inaction on protecting the tiger population and extended the interim order banning tourist activities in the core areas of tiger reserves. Read full text of this order dated 29 Aug 2012.
Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MFPI) has launched a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) - National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP) during 12th Plan (2012-13) for implementation through States / UTs.
Department of Atomic Energy has been pulled up for diluting the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, in this report tabled in the Parliament on 28.08.2012, by subordinate legislation committee of the Lok Sabha.
In this new report Amnesty International draws attention to Vedanta's continuing failure to recognise rights of the communities affected by the company's operations in Orissa & recommends suspension of projects until human rights abuses faced by communities are addressed.
Cancer is a leading cause of disease worldwide. An estimated 12.7 million new cancer cases occurred in 2008. Lung, female breast, colorectal and stomach cancers accounted for 40% of all cases diagnosed worldwide. In men, lung cancer was the most common cancer (16.5% of all new cases in men).
Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines – provides the first ever common approach to corporate water disclosure. Companies are fundamentally changing the way they address water.
Sea ice is frozen sea water that waxes and wanes in response to the cooling and warming of the Arctic throughout the year. The ice pack reaches its greatest extent at the end of the winter, during March, and its lowest point at the end of the summer, usually in mid-September. This point is known as the sea ice minimum.
