Image: An Indian Royal Bengal tiger at the South Khairbari nature park near Siliguri. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters 'We are rushing to 'develop' without carefully valuing natural......
Finance Minister P Chidambaram's budget may have evoked mixed reactions across the country but it has brought a smile on the faces of officials in the Forest Department. The Department is thankful......
Naresh Chandra, former Indian Ambassador to the United States, is a pioneer in more ways than one. He successfully withstood the wrath of the the American nuclear non-proliferation lobby after the......
There is money to buy the central public sector enterprises, but buyers will need a firm assurance that the disvestment programme will keep environment issues front and centre of their corporate......
‘The target for next year is unlikely to be more than that of this year. The more you divest in any cycle, the less your potential pipeline for the next,’ said an official. ‘The......
As the sun goes down on 2005, there will be cause for both rejoicing and depression over Kudremukh. The depression will mainly be among the 2,500-odd employees of Kudremukh Iron Ore Company, who......
Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd, the country's largest mining and pelletisation public sector enterprise, has applied to the Karnataka government for a mining lease to source its raw material......
In an initiative to optimise the functioning of four of its PSUs -- MSTC, FSNL, KIOCL and HSCL -- the steel ministry is considering restructuring the companies and has appointed a committee to......