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Ghazala Shahabuddin’s recent talk on 30^th August, 2012 at IIC, New Delhi focused on the malaise underlying India’s dominant conservation paradigm, which is for the most part one of top-down control and exclusion.

Delhi gets its first solar water purification plant

Organizers: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Centre for Science and Environment

Venue:   Indian Institute of Science,
                 Bangalore

Indian Climate Research Network is a collaboration of Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. The main goal of the network is to enhance capacity for climate research and action in India.

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This article presents the first Ravi Sankaran Memorial Lecture, by Mahesh Rangarajan, Bangalore, 2 August 2012: "Conservation as if Democracy Mattered". The lecture forcefully argues that the goals of both democracy and wildlife conservation are linked, and need to be addressed together.

Ion Exchange Services Ltd (IESL), the leader in providing services for any make and type of water and waste water treatment plants, announced the launch of ‘Containerized Water Treatment Plant’ on rental basis for supply of treated water.

Current evidence has shown that a large population of people in India practice open defecation and do not use toilets even when available.

NREGA is widely criticized to be a program that creates 'empty' work for the sole purpose of employment, and does not extend itself to developing assets. This criticism is often made without supporting data, as there has been little research on asset creation through NREGA.

This report by Central Pollution Control Board sheds light on the guidelines meant for environmental protection for new industrial estates and up gradation of pollution control systems for existing industrial estates.

Rainfall data