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Pollution Control
What it takes to clean a river
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2000
Romantic Rhine
Salmon returns to the Rhine after decades of absence from the "biggest sewer of Europe"
Exhausting Practices
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2000
it was bandied as a strategy to promote good vehicle maintenance and help curb pollution. But India's inspection and maintenance ( i&m ) programme -- in other words, the Pollution Under Control ( puc ) certificate scheme -- has turned into a major farce.
THE FUTURE OF CLEAN ENERGY
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2000
W e can start this story like a science fiction thriller. But we want to talk reality. So, before discussing the hype that fuel cells generate, let us start on a rather elementary note. The dictionary will tell you that a cell is a unit in a device for converting chemical energy into electricity. Which is good. But there's a problem. The best of cells are useless after the chemical stops creating electricity.
FIGHTING FOR AIR
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2000
MUMBAI Death for Hire
Diesel taxis are raising hell. Their drivers are lodged in a pitched battle with the civil society
The lake colony
Issue Date: Sep 15, 1999
If you have been won over by these lines in the tourism brochure, Srinagar should top your list of places to visit. If you are in Srinagar, you will hire a shikara (boat) to take in the beauty of the lake and the majestic mountains surrounding it. The road on your right, called the Boulevard -- Srinagar's most exciting address -- supplies you with booming bhangra-rock from Marutis and sirens from ugly-looking Maruti Gypsy-turned-armoured cars. There are rows of houseboats on your left.
Acid rain arriving soon in India
Issue Date: May 15, 1999
When it rains it burns
Acid rain has already been reported in some parts of India, and the situation is likely to get worse
The Method Behind The Madness
Issue Date: Oct 31, 1998
SILENCE OF THE SCAMS
Corruption is increasingly tightening its grip over the daily lives of Indian citizens. Experts describe it as a form of 'tidal corruption'. It has, therefore, become vital to shift attention from the corrupt to the system which breeds corruption
Waste pays
Issue Date: Nov 15, 1993
Purifying the Ganga
Issue Date: Sep 30, 1992
IT may have been this emotive encomium to the Ganga that motivated Nehru's grandson, Rajiv Gandhi, to undertake India's most ambitious environmental clean-up programme ever. Launching the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) in Varanasi on June 14, 1986, Gandhi, then prime minister, of India, stated confidently, "We shall see that the waters of the Ganga become clean once again."
Serious inquiry
@sugandh84 Issue Date: Nov 30, 2011
A committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has issued first-of-its-kind guidelines. They seek to categorise non-compliance of conditions attached to environmental clearances as “serious” and “not so serious”.
