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Northern power grid on the blink

States were cautioned more than 400 times against overdrawing electricity

Today's breakfast: DDT

A significant proportion of food products in India, especially infant food products, has been found to be contaminated by poisonous substances

Delhi's dream clean-up

Factories smugly carry on polluting villages around capital city

In short

Ganga returns to its sluggish, dirty state

Kumbh over, freshwater release is discontinued; tanneries resume operations

Yummy but harmful

Indian markets are flooded with foods that contain colours beyond permissible limits

Up against GM

RTI assessment

Tannery convicted

Ayurvedic drug manufacturers divided over new eu directives

Drought spreads its tentacles

UP government caught napping as state comes under dry spell

The crippling effects of TCE

tce is a nonflammable, colourless liquid. It is mainly used to remove grease from metal parts. Worldwide almost 80-90 per cent of this chemical …

Green tribunal orders closure of 18 polluting industries in Noida

Order follows site inspections by a joint committee appointed by tribunal

“It is not religion but the state that is insensitive to the environment”

“Both Hinduism and modern science are sensitive to the environment”

“Both Hinduism and modern science are sensitive to the environment”

Maha Kumbh to be a dry run?

Religious organisations say there is not enough water in the Ganga to take the holy dip

Sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh short changed

Blowing out a tradition

The ban on conch shell trading has sent the industry into a tizzy

The flyash burden

Will the targets set for utilising flyash by power plants be met?

More dirt on GAP

The much-hyped sewage treatment plants installed in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, under the Ganga Action Plan are proving to be ineffective. A report …

Shallow scheme

Drinking water project peppered with flaws

Time for course correction

Congress likely to go all out to woo people in the new budget

India set to grow biofortified crop

Four states to cultivate iron-rich pearl millet by 2012