Rashme Sehgal

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‘Tiger tourism needs to become responsible’

RTI activist Ajay Dubey of Madhya Pradesh, who shot into prominence with his Supreme Court petition asking for better monitoring of tiger reserves, feels he was justified in having sought redressal fr

Experts throw new light on tiger tourism

A report produced by India’s two leading tiger experts — Prof. K. Sankar and Prof.

Natarajan, Ahluwalia in face off

A faceoff has developed between low-key environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan and Planning Commission deputy commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

38 areas in marine protection network

With the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CoBD) committed to developing a global network of marine-protected areas (MPA), the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has so far p

Row over report on Carbide site water

A cruel joke has been played out at the expense of the Bhopal victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster.

‘Marked bias in favour of Reliance Power’

Granting of major concessions to the Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Power Ltd (RPL) helped them gain a windfall of `29, 033 crores, the CAG report said.

‘Marked bias in favour of Reliance Power’

Granting of major concessions to the Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Power Ltd (RPL) helped them gain a windfall of `29, 033 crores, the CAG report said.

Heavy demand behind spurt in poaching?

The spurt in tiger poaching in India is being directly attributed to the increasing demand of tiger parts especially in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma and Indonesia.

India set to build lab bigger than Cern

India is set to build the world’s largest magnet, which will be four times larger than the 12,500-tonne magnet housed in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at Cern in Geneva.

Koodankulam Fuel loading gets go-ahead

The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has granted permission for the loading of fuel into the much-delayed Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP).

Having received the go-ahead, the Nuclear Powe

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