If Jairam Ramesh was flexible on the Kyoto Protocol and tough on industries in an endeavour to build overall responsibility towards the environment, his successor Jayanthi Natarajan seems to have a clear brief to tighten the nation’s stand on that issue as she talked tough at her first meeting on climate change issues with 150 environment ministers in South Africa.
Author: admin (Infratructure Today)
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The L-Factor
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RIL withdraws from Oman
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India committed to IPI proj
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Rs 1.5 tn facelift for ports
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Banks to offload infra portfolio to IIFCL
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Global bids for Kochi ship repair yard
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Separate dept for IWT in west Bengal
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Coal transportation norms
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Draft telecom security policy
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