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The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), Government of India’s recent submissions to the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel for G...

Many years ago, I saw a poster whose message has forever remained etched on my mind. It was a poster on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with...

With the decision on 31st Jan 2011 to grant clearance to the POSCO project, against strong recommendations of its own committees, the Enviro...

My latest article is now up on India Together. It talks about the dams that China is planning to build on the Brahmaputra, the likley impact...

The Ministry of Environment and Forests has today (28 nov 2010) accorded the environmental clearance to the 9900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear power p...

The Ministry of Environment and Forests finally accorded Environmental Clearance to the proposed International airport at Navi Mumbai on 22 ...

See my latest article, on the on the International Hydropower Association's Hydropower Sustainability Protocol... http://www.indiatogeth...

The program to mark 25 years of the Narmada Bachao Andolan starts today (22 Oct 2010) with a rally and public meeting at Dhadgaon. Several ...

My article on UN recognising water as a human right is now up on India Together. You can read it at http://indiatogether.org/2010/oct/hrt-wa...

My article on India's energy policy, raising the issues of energy for what and whom, and the issue of sustainabililty - and whether ther...

See my latest article in the appointment of Rakesh Nath as Chair of the Expert Appraisal Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forest...

Economic Times carried an article by Bjorn Lomborg on 3rd August 2010. This is my response to it, sent to ET, but I am not sure if they will...

The judgement of the Chief judicial Magistrate, Bhopal, in the gas tragedy-mass murder case comes more as a reminder of the abject helplessn...

It is now emerging that the Maoists are not behind the gruesome incident of the Gyaneshwari Expresss. Both the CPI(Maoist) and the PCAPA hav...

Our dear HM has recently issued dire threats to civil society for "supporting" the Maoists. To him, anyone who even hints at the ...

" The US is now learning that ugly occupations cannot produce beautiful resistances ." Raza Naeem, reviewing Fareed Zakaria's ...

Shri Shekhar Gupta’s Drought Proofing India (Indian Express, 15 August 2009 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/droughtproofing-india/502292/ ...

The temparature reached 48 oC on 28th April and has been hovering around that mark since then. Even a small round outside is enough to roast...

Climat Change is Upon Us Climate Change is surely upon us. It is not just the big things that we read in the press - the melting Himalayan g...

Later this week, from 18-20th July 2008, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay’s Golden Jubilee Gala Event takes off in New York. ...