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......
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......
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......
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......
Work on disinvesting government holdings may gather pace after the first week of August. Administrative ministries of around 15 Public Sector Undertakings have been asked to give feedback on the......
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......
Come April, steel prices are likely to skyrocket on the back of an expected 65 per cent increase in iron ore prices. Domestic steel producers without captive mines source most of their iron ore......