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Who is monitoring Lavasa?

Lavasa Corporation is rushing to complete its township in Western Ghats. No one knows if the promoter is complying with conditions on which it …

Gentle on critical pollution

After declaring 43 industrial areas in India as critically polluted and imposing a moratorium on their expansion, the Union Ministry of …

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Mr Modi, Wish us a Happy Environment Day

Science and Technology - Briefs

Lavasa: Dream for one, nightmare for many

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava finds how people affected by Lavasa are coping with the destruction it has caused

India’s Minamata

Singrauli, the powerhouse of India with massive coal reserves and many thermal power plants, should have been prosperous. But it is poor and …

Stench in my backyard

As Kerala cities dump their waste in the countryside, people in the villages hit back. An unresolved civic problem of decades compounded by …

This is what Lavasa looks like

Letters

Secretive tribunals, hidden damages

Canadian academic Gus Van Harten is well known for his efforts to reform the global investment treaty regime through his research papers, …

India’s many investment treaties make it vulnerable

Senior international lawyer Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, who heads the investment programme of the International Institute on Sustainable …

Lavasa exposed

By its looks, the place could be mistaken for Portofino, a fishing village-cum-resort in Italy—multi-coloured buildings crowd a waterfront …

Environment Day: Green agenda for new government

Get the focus on environment and health, Mr Prime Minister