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Kerala floods put focus back on worsening situation in Western Ghats

 "Things are getting worse in Western Ghats", says eminent ecologist Madhav Gadgil as he urged the people on the "grassroots" to "sufficiently pressure" the elected representatives to take measures......

Freedom fighter rejects Padma Bhushan

 Siddha Raj Dadda, veteran freedom fighter and social activist, has rejected the Padma Bhushan award conferred on him on the eve of Republic Day.Dadda announced the decision while inaugurating the......

March, or call in, to save your water

 As you read this, a rather unlikely march is taking placefrom Ballia to Varanasi in eastern India. Among the marchers is an American who has traveled all the way from Minneapolis to the badlands of......

A panchayat fights Coke for its water

 Soft drinks giant, Coca Cola, will testify before a panchayat council in Kerala's Palakkad district on December 2 to argue that its plant is not over-exploiting groundwater resources and therefore......

Kerala village to host water conference

 Plachimada, a village in Palakkad district, Kerala, which has been fighting Coca-Cola for the past one year, will host a world water conference in January 2004.Indian environmentalists led by......

Coca-Cola bottling plant in troubled waters again

 Beverages major Coca-Cola is again in troubled waters. While it has for quite a while faced questions on over-usage of groundwater in its bottling plants, there is now a First Information Report......

Attack on the MNC Titans

 It's a post-truth world for multinational brands and businesses too. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. Pepsi and Coca-Cola are again in a tight spot in India, this time with a powerful......

Coke's Gujarat plant in troubled waters

 Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola is finding itself in troubled waters, again. After rows over water usage at its plants in Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, it is now the turn of its Gujarat factory. Congress......

After Coke, Pepsi's Kerala plant draws flak

 After Coca Cola, another softdrink major Pepsi has come on the radar of the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala which has alleged that its plant in Palakkad district was extracting excess......

Pepsi plant under Kerala scanner

 State Assembly recommends imposition of curbs on extraction of water by the plant. Taking a serious note of the alleged exploitation of groundwater by Pepsi, a committee of the Kerala Assembly......

The reason why Mammootty may refuse Rs 20 million

 Communism and Coca Cola do not mix well, Malayalam superstar Mammootty has just learnt.The actor has been involved in a Coca Cola controversy after he signed a Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million)......

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