Author Archives: Ravleen

Who’s encroaching? Noida eyes the Yamuna floodplain

Posted on February 14, 2009 by Ravleen

Noida eyes the Yamuna floodplain About 1,000 migrants lost their livelihood when their huts and crops on the Yamuna floodplain near the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border were razed in December. The Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department carried out the operation on a … Continue reading →

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Too Hot to Handle – Storage of Toxic Industrial Waste

Posted on February 14, 2009 by Ravleen

India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough? A fire at Ankleshwar forced India to rethink how it handles hazardous waste. Drums carrying dangerous industrial sludge flew amid leaping flames and burst in the … Continue reading →

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Deadline for disposing UCIL (Union Carbide Plant) waste

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Ravleen

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on December 16 issued fresh directions to dispose the toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. The waste is to be incinerated at the waste treatment site in Ankleshwar industrial area of … Continue reading →

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Bail industry out – CII wants government to reconsider land acquisition bill.

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Ravleen

CII wants government to reconsider land acquisition bill. THE Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has opposed the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill 2007 likely to be tabled in the next session of Parliament. The CII in a press release said it … Continue reading →

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[Nuclear Power] Stepping on a minefield

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Ravleen

As nuclear waste maims people, India plans to generate more. INDIA intends to increase the share of nuclear power from 3.1 per cent of its total energy generation to 25 per cent by 2050. Six nuclear power reactors are under … Continue reading →

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Current trends of Renewable Energy

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Ravleen

Solar photovoltaics is the fastest growing area in the energy sector. Of the US $71 billion invested in renewables worldwide in 2007, 30 per cent was in solar PV. According to market analysts, between 2007 and 2011, this industry is … Continue reading →

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[India] Asbestos, endosulfan escape blacklist

Posted on November 29, 2008 by Ravleen

India blocked export restrictions on them at Rotterdam Convention. India yet again played spoilsport by preventing chrysotile asbestos and endosulfan from being included in Annex III of UN’s Rotterdam Convention that brands them hazardous. Had the two been included in … Continue reading →

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Corporal lab – Clinical trials sustain Ahmedabad’s Riot Victims

Posted on November 29, 2008 by Ravleen

Clinical trials sustain Ahmedabad’s riot victims When her husband took chronically ill after communal riots drove them to Juhapura, a ghetto on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, poverty made life seem unmanageable. Free will then became a matter of Rs 8,000 … Continue reading →

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