Minimum nuclear liability

In case of accident, US does not want firms to pay it all nuclear reactor suppliers will not be liable if there is an accident in an atomic power plant in India. The onus of the accident would be on the operator, only partly. The rest would be on the Indian government. This, if India clears the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill. The bill, though, has not been put up for public discussions in India and its clauses are not known.

Appellate tribunal dismisses appeal

Fishers' plead to scrap port, SEZ on Kachchh coast

Land goes to industry

Just when irrigation seemed possible People of more than 10 villages in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat have launched an agitation against the state government's decision to give 4,500 hectares (ha) to the Nirma group for setting up a cement plant and for mining limestone.

In court

Farmers claim Nano's land: The Gujarat high court has dismissed petitions filed by a group of farmers seeking compensation for the land the state government transferred to Tata Motors for the Nano project. The court fined each of the petitioners Rs 10,000 for filing "frivolous, speculative and vexatious" petitions. After the Nano project moved from Singur in West Bengal, the Gujarat government offered it 445 hectares of land in Sanand taluka.

Where is the punishment?

The factory inspector of the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation in Ankleshwar has filed 13 cases against beil under the Factories Act, 1948. One was filed before the fire regarding the tsdf having seven sheds while it had the permission for only six. Nobody knows why the inspector did not talk of other violations then.

Dangerous business

Disposal facilities are not the final solution, but are good business as long as subsidized

January 31, 2009

Deadline for disposing UCIL waste 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 Gujarat. The court directed the Gujarat government to dispose the hazardous waste by January 31, 2009.

Smells like green spirit

Decentralized Waste Water Treatment System

Corporal lab

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 for 40-year-old Zainab Bi. For a sum like that she was willing to swallow an

In court

State's prerogative: A division bench of the Bombay High Court on October 22 observed that the state government has the power to change a green zone into an industrial area. The court was hearing a PIL filed by Shetkari Sangarsh Samiti, a farmers' organization based in Shahpur in Maharashtra's Raigad district. The farmers had opposed land acquisition by the state government for the Maharashtra Energy Generation Ltd--a subsidiary of Reliance Energy--that proposes to build a 4,000 mw natural gas and coal-based plant