-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Seeking to send a positive signal to industries, the new environment and forest minister M Veerappa Moily on Tuesday said no files will be kept pending in his ministry and the "image" of the green regulator would never be compromised in the process of project clearance. Immediately after taking additional charge of the environment and forest ministry, the Union petroleum and Natural Gas minister Moily said,...
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Now, cheap cooking gas for villagers -MJ Prabu
-The Hindu Tamil Nadu: With the price of LPG gas cylinders going up, the need of the hour is technology that can provide cooking gas - an efficient fuel - that will help the poor, particularly the rural population. Vivekananda Kendra-Natural Resources Development (Vk- Nardep), an NGO in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, has come out with a low-volume fixed model Shakthi-Surabhi gas generating plant, aimed at solving the energy problems of the rural...
More »One world of climate and trade-Sunita Narain
-The Business Standard India has emerged as a "voice" in climate change and trade negotiations. The already industrialised countries say that India is obstinate, strident and unnecessarily obstructionist in crucial global debates. The problem is not that India is loud - this it needs to be. The fact is that, while ecological and economic globalisation are interlinked and irrevocable, there is a fundamental weakness in the overall rules that govern these...
More »90 firms responsible for emitting two-thirds of world's deadly gases since 1751: Study -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing debate over how to arrive at a global climate deal which may be acceptable to all nations, new research on greenhouse gas emissions has listed 90 companies - mostly belonging to rich countries - as the major culprits who emitted nearly two-thirds of the total carbon dioxide and methane emissions in the world since 1751. Though the list also carries the names...
More »Ministry sets Feb 1 deadline for linking Aadhaar cards with banks -Nisha Nambiar
-The Indian Express Pune: Even as the Supreme Court had directed that Aadhaar cards are not compulsory to avail LPG subsidy, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has asked oil companies to make it mandatory and has set February 1 as deadline for customers to link their Aadhaar cards with banks. With Pune among the districts being covered under Direct Benefit Transfer scheme to avail LPG subsidy, oil companies have made...
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