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Fixing responsibility

BRAZIL

INDONESIA

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BOLIVIA

Brakes on dumping

Nepal squeezes forest users

The community forest user groups of Nepal will now be required to cough up a steep 40 per cent fee on their total income from sale of forest products

Healing touch

J&K proposes prescription for reviving medicinal plants

Sell-off norms

Rules being framed for disinvestment of natural resource-based PSUs

Karnataka hangs on to its sandalwood

The Karnataka government ostensibly allows private production of sandalwood, but actually maintains a tight rein on the trade. In fact, eight …

Saving the taj

In the soup

No US entry for polluting Mexican trucks

Fisherfolk banned from Jambudwip island

No fishing on island without government's permission, says Supreme Court committee

Clean air drive

Penalised for polluting

On delicate ground

Demand to amend Forest Conservation Act looms large over talks between Naxalites and AP

CPWD: no fly ash zone

This department has a will of its own: ignores government policy for fly ash use

Brickbats

Manufacturers won't mix fly ash in bricks; to go on strike

Organic states

Mizoram passes legislation to go fully organic, Sikkim already on the path

Rs 1,503 crore

Bhopal victims to get additional relief

Barriers under pestle?

WHO introduces guidelines to promote traditional medicines

The number one rule

The Swiss government regulates even the numbers of polluting particulate matter

Torn to shreds

US stand on cotton subsidies rejected by WTO